Non-formal education (NFE) refers to organized educational activities outside the formal school system that provide selected types of learning. NFE aims to meet basic learning needs and lay the foundation for further learning. It includes programs like basic literacy, accreditation and equivalency, education for indigenous peoples, informal education, and Madrasah education. NFE is funded by organizations like the Bureau of Alternative Learning System, local governments, NGOs, and private donors. It is established and supported by laws like the 1987 Philippine Constitution, the Governance of Basic Education Act, and the Education for All Plan 2015.
2. Basic Education
•It is the education intended to meet basic
learning needs which lays the foundation
on which subsequent learning can be
based.
3. Formal education
•It is the systematic and deliberate process
of hierarchically structured and sequential
learning corresponding to the general
concept of elementary and secondary
level of schooling.
4. inFormal education
•It is a lifelong process of learning by which
every person acquires and accumulates
knowledge, skills, attitudes and insights
from daily experiences at home, at work,
at play and from life itself
5. Non-formal education (NFE)
•NFE refers to any organized, systematic
educational activity carried outside the
framework of the formal system to provide
selected types of learning to a segment of
the population.
6. Legal foundations of the nfe
1. 1987 Philippine Constitution
➢The State shall protect and promote the right of
all citizens to quality education at all levels, and
shall take appropriate steps to make such
education accessible to all. (Art. XIV, Sec 1, 1987
Phil. Consti.)
7. 2. RA 9155 (The Governance Act of Basic
Education)
➢This law recognized the ALS as a complement of
formal education and a major component of
basic education
8. 3. EO No. 356 (Renaming BNFE to BALS)
➢Aside from renaming the bureau, this law also
directed BALS to provide a systematic and
flexible approach to reach all types learners
outside the school system.
9. 4. Education for All Plan 2015
➢One of its main goals is to transform all non formal
and informal education interventions into an ALS
to yield more EFA benefits.
10. Who Finances NFE?
1. Bureau of Alternative Learning System
2. Local Government Units
3. Non-government Organizations
4. Private Groups/Donors
11. Kumustahan sa Barangay
•It is an innovative participatory advocacy and
monitoring and evaluation strategy as well.
•It serves as a central venue for the promotion of
NFE at the community level.
•Its main objective is to mobilize local efforts and
rally support for sustainable non formal
program’s implementation.
12. USAPAN
•Usapan at Aksyon sa ALS Ngayon
•It aims to support the professional growth and
develop competence of the Mobile Teachers
by organizing them into small groups or clusters
to learn from one another.
13. MAJOR TYPES OF NFE PROGRAMS
1. BASIC LITERACY PROGRAM
➢This aims to provide illiterate out-of-school
children, youth and adults the basic literacy.
➢It is a straight literacy program that uses the life
skills approach with a modified content
according to different learning groups.
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2. ACCREDITATION & EQUIVALENCY PROGRAM
➢This aims to provide learners a range of
alternative pathways in order that they may
continue their learning outside of the formal
school system and upgrade their skills and
competencies and functional literacy.
15. MAJOR TYPES OF NFE PROGRAMS
3. INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S EDUCATION
➢This aims to develop ALS intervention that is
acceptable to the IP’s in general and specific IP
communities.
➢The content is based on Indigenous People’s
Rights Act.
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4. INFORMAL EDUCATION
➢This program is focused on the packaging of
special interest short term courses for continuing
education program for specific interest groups .
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5. MADRASAH EDUCATION
➢This program aims to foster better understanding
between the migrant Muslims and their host
communities.