Non‐formal education, out‐of‐school learning needs and employment opportunities
Evidence from Mali
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11920088 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frédérique Weyer (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 249-262 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7925 • E-ISSN: 1469-3623 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057920902750509 |
| OpenAlex | W2162524107 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 2 |
Non‐formal education (NFE) is now considered as playing a critical role in the achievement of the objective of Education for All, by reaching the learning needs of youth and adults who do not have access to formal education, increasing their employment opportunities and therefore contributing to poverty alleviation. Yet there is still insufficient knowledge available on the relationships between NFE, learning needs of out‐of‐school youth and adults, and employment. This paper intends to contribute to the debate by discussing both the data collected in rural Mali and the evidence drawn from a household survey on the outcomes of the Educational Centres for Development (Centres d’éducation pour le développement – CEDs), which address out‐of‐school youth in rural areas. This paper argues that the effective approach of the CED programme is similar to formal schooling, with some adjustments in order to meet what is considered as the specific learning needs of out‐of‐school youth. However, CEDs are more adapted to boys' learning needs than they are to girls'. This paper also demonstrates that the CED programme has no effect on the scope of activities of young people as they stay in their village but do improve the way these activities are carried out and widens their employment opportunities as they migrate
Adult education · Economic growth · Economics · Formal education · Formal learning · Pedagogy · Political science · Poverty · Rural area · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.42 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2017 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |