INFORMALNO UČENJE KAO PRILIKA ZA PERMANENTNO OBRAZOVANJE NASTAVNIKA

Abstract

In the existing pedagogical literature, the need for permanent, continuous improvement of teachers and teacher competencies is emphasized. In that context, the ideal tool for that is informal education. “Informal education” is a term often used to describe learning activities from everyday life. Informal education is defined as a lifelong process in which each individual acquires attitudes, values, skills and knowledge from everyday experiences and educational influences from their environment - family and neighbors of work and play, libraries, museums, markets, mass media. Informal education is a combination of life and learning and relies on systematic and cumulative aspects of everyday experiential learning. The aim of this paper is to show the importance of informal education, to point out its basic segments, characteristics, as well as to show the importance of lifelong learning of teachers. The importance of the topic of this paper is extremely great, due to the need for permanent (lifelong) learning of teachers and the importance of informal learning. During this research, the emphasis was on the study of existing literature. The research was conducted on the basis of content analysis, which is based on the study of secondary sources. The tasks of the research were as follows: 1. to point out the concept of informal education, 2. to point out the characteristics of informal education, 3. To point out the importance of permanent teacher education, 4. to point out the necessity of continuous improvement of teacher competencies. The need to study this topic is extremely great due to the importance of informal education, as well as the importance of permanent teacher education and the need for continuous improvement of teacher competencies.