Non-formal education in the Brazilian and international scenario: tensions that permeate its conceptual formulation
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5335/rep.v26i2.7200Keywords:
Educação não formal. Histórico e conceituação. Educação e aprendizagem.Abstract
The article is a bibliographical study that aims to present the historical course of constitution of the field of
non formal education in the international and national contexts in order to perceive how the conceptual and
theoretical creation of this field was giving itself as well as its implications. In this way, non-formal education
touches relationships with formal education and presents some problems arising from its origins and historicalconceptual changes involving the public served by programs and projects of the third sector, public, private and mixed capital organizations in actions out of school. This article brings subsidies for the theoretical and practical foundation in this conceptual and educational field. It is concluded that the place attributed to the field of nonformal education orbits the periphery and the margins in relation to the centrality of the field of formal education. To understand, conceptually, the two fields as autonomous and independent, that interpenetrate, with mobility and without defined boundaries, is perhaps a way for the integration and valorisation of many forms of practicing education, without demerit and discredit, allowing even the diversity of educational proposals.