informal education and association

Association - joining together in companionship or to undertake some task, and the educative power of playing one's part in a group or association

The Albemarle Report (1960) famously declared that the primary aims of the youth service should be association, training and challenge.

To encourage young people to come together into groups of their own choosing is the fundamental task of the Service... (W)e want to call attention to:

a) an opportunity for commitment....

b) an opportunity for counsel....

c) an opportunity for self-determination. (1960 52-54).