Formal and Nonformal Education: Future Strategies

Abstract

This chapter focuses on future strategies of formal and nonformal education. An educational development strategy, as the term is used here, is a framework for specific educational policies and actions, intended to keep these policies and actions reasonably balanced and integrated, well-timed, properly weighted, and headed in the right direction. When properly clarified and interpreted, the basic concepts and principles may provide useful guidance for developing future educational strategies and for dealing with the much discussed question of linkages. Adult education, especially as formerly perceived in most developing countries, has been expanding and branching out into new territory where it can serve a much wider range of adult learning needs. Perhaps the most important general conclusion to be drawn is that a broad movement toward more comprehensive educational strategies and more effective linkages between all sorts of education and development goals is already well underway in many countries.