Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Should one develop nonformal education?

  • Published:
Prospects Aims and scope Submit manuscript

    We’re sorry, something doesn't seem to be working properly.

    Please try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, please contact support so we can address the problem.

Abstract

In the following pages we are reproducing, with the kind permission of the International Council for Educational Development (ICED) and of Unicef large extracts from a report entitled ‘Nonformal Education for Rural Development: Strengthening Learning Opportunities for Children and Youth' (February 1973).

The ICED is a non-profit research organization concerned with improving education's contribution to economic and social development in all the regions of the world.

In carrying out this study, at the request of Unicef, Philip H. Coombs was assisted principally by Roy C. Prosser, Deputy Director of the Study; Manzoor Ahmed, Assistant to the Director; Roshan R. Billimoria, Research Assistant, and Sven Grabe, Special Consultant.

The main part of the text printed here is drawn from Chapters II and VI of the report.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Learning to Be: The World of Education Today and Tomorrow, Paris, Unesco/Harrap, 1972.

  2. Learning to Be, op. cit.,The World of Education Today and Tomorrow, Paris, Unesco/Harrap, 1971, p. 83.

  3. David Bakan, ‘Adolescence in America: From Idea to Social Fact’,Daedalus, Fall 1971. p. 980.

  4. See United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs,Long-term Policies and Programmes for Youth in National Development, ST/SOA/103, New York, 1970, p. 4.

  5. See Mahbub ul Huq, ‘Employment in the 1970s: A New Perspective’,International Development Review, December 1971, p. 9–13.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. USA

    Philip H. Coombs

Authors
  1. Philip H. Coombs
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Formerly Director of the International Institute for Educational Planning (Unesco). Currently Vice Chairman of ICED Among his many publications is The World Education Crisis: A Systems Analysis (1968).

About this article

Cite this article

Coombs, P.H. Should one develop nonformal education?. Prospects 3, 287–306 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02198523

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02198523

Keywords

Search

Navigation