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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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