Non-formal education in the Brazilian and international scenario: tensions that permeate its conceptual formulation

Authors

  • Renata Sieiro Fernandes Centro Universitário Salesiano de São Paulo - UNISAL, campus Americana-SP. Author http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2759-143X
  • Valéria Aroeira Garcia Rede pública municipal de Campinas-SP. Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5335/rep.v26i2.7200

Keywords:

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.

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Author Biographies

  • Renata Sieiro Fernandes, Centro Universitário Salesiano de São Paulo - UNISAL, campus Americana-SP.

    Pedagoga, mestre, doutora e pós-doutora em Educação pela UNICAMP. Docente do Programa de Mestrado em Educação e do curso de Pedagogia do UNISAL, campus Americana-SP.

  • Valéria Aroeira Garcia, Rede pública municipal de Campinas-SP.
    Graduada em Pedagogia pela UNICAMP. Doutorado em Educação pela UNICAMP. Pós-doutoranda em Educação pela USP. Supervisora educacional na rede pública municipal de Campinas-SP.

Published

2019-05-10

How to Cite

Non-formal education in the Brazilian and international scenario: tensions that permeate its conceptual formulation. Revista Espaço Pedagógico, [S. l.], v. 26, n. 2, p. 498–517, 2019. DOI: 10.5335/rep.v26i2.7200. Disponível em: https://ojs.upf.br/index.php/rep/article/view/7200. Acesso em: 16 oct. 2025.