christian informal education

Resisting the move to formal education within youth work and mixing the two

I am convinced that this subtle blend of the formal and the informal is the solution to our difficulties. But here we are on the edge of largely unexplored territory. We are seeking to communi­cate the Christian message to some of the more alienated people in our society. Informal education is continually absorbed into their already formal perspectives, which are the fruit of much bitter experience. Formal education is just a complete turn off and can survive only when backed either by compulsion or some sort of bribe — ‘you can only come to club if you stay for and behave in the epilogue’.

John Ellis

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