Lifelong learning and adult education
for starters adult education defined – discussion and guide. learning in the community. Explore the idea of learning and education in the community. lifelong learning. Lifelong learning is much talked...
View ArticleInformal Jewish education
A set of pages exploring informal Jewish education Featured: The Passover Seder Service as a paradigm for informal Jewish education. In this article Daniel Rose presents the Passover Seder service,...
View ArticleInformal and non-formal education
Exploring the experiences, practice and theories of informal education and non-formal education. Introducing informal education and non-formal education What is informal education? So what is informal...
View ArticleHelping, casework and counselling
A set of pages exploring the theory and practice of helping and the process of giving support. Introducing helping What do we mean by helping – and what is its relationship to informal education,...
View ArticleGroup work principles, theory and practice
Exploring the principles, theory, practice and development of work with groups introducing groupwork What is a group? We explore what a group is – and some key dimensions of groups. What is groupwork?...
View ArticleCommunity learning and development
Introducing community development : Walking social action: exploring social action and community development through a virtual walk in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe. New : Reclaiming the radical agenda: a...
View ArticleChristian youth work and youth ministry
featured Educational settlements. Mark Freeman explores their development and the role that Quakerism played. [See, also, our feature on educational settlements]. The philosophy of informal Jewish...
View ArticleAssociation, democracy and civil society
A set of pages exploring civil society, civic participation, the development of community and association, and the activities of educators and animateurs. ‘The strength of free peoples resides in the...
View ArticleAbout us
infed was established in 1995 at the YMCA George Williams College, London as an open and not-for-profit site. Put together by a small group of educators, it is now accessed over 6 million times a...
View ArticleParticipation in learning projects and programmes
Participation in learning projects and programmes. Why do people engage in learning projects? What are the barriers to participation? How are we to theorize participation? Contents: defining adult...
View ArticleCalling and informal education
Calling and informal education. The notion of calling, once rather unfashionable, has re-emerged as an organizing idea within education. Michele Erina Doyle examines calling and vocation, and sets them...
View ArticleThe evaluation page
A developing set of pages exploring theories, issues and practices in evaluation general evaluation – the theory and practice of evaluating informal education, lifelong learning and social action...
View Articlearchives
Materials that illuminate the development of informal education, community learning an development, lifelong learning and social pedagogy. Scroll through to find the writers and topics that you want –...
View ArticleThe problem of ‘youth’ for youth work
The problem of ‘youth’ for youth work. Full text of the article by Tony Jeffs and Mark K. Smith published in Youth and Policy. Contents: introduction · control · so where does youth work come in ·...
View Article“The playground of today is the republic of tomorrow”: social reform and...
Linnea M. Anderson explores the development of organized recreation programmes in the American settlement and playground movements. She examines core themes and methodologies. These emphasized the...
View ArticleThe early development of group work
We examine the emergence of group work in British work with young people and adults during the nineteenth century. In particular we review the contribution of ragged schooling, boys’ and girls’ clubs,...
View ArticleSocial groupwork: formulation of a method, 1920-1936
In this important (1981) piece Kenneth E. Reid explores a pivotal time in the development of the theory and practice of working with groups within social work. He assesses the contribution of Grace...
View ArticleGroup work – expansion and professionalism 1937 – 1955
In this important (1981) piece Kenneth E. Reid explores how group work was increasingly presented as part of social work (as against informal education and recreation) and the fascinating process of...
View ArticleMaking learning work: social enterprise and organizational learning
Shirley Brice Heath examines the growing coherence between the worlds of business and youth-based community organizations. She argues that this has happened within both the realms of theory and...
View ArticleCommunity learning and development
Introducing community development : Walking social action: exploring social action and community development through a virtual walk in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe. New : Reclaiming the radical agenda:...
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