Formal education is planned and delivered systematically by trained teachers within an educational institution, with the goal of modifying behavior according to a set curriculum and time period. Informal education occurs spontaneously through everyday interactions and experiences within a community from birth until death, without a set curriculum or timetable. Non-formal education lies between formal and informal, being intentionally organized outside of formal systems to provide structured learning opportunities with flexible curricula.

6. “Formal education is that which is
continously and deliberatly planned for
modification of behaviour with a particular end
in view.”

7.  Normally delivered by trained teachers in a
systematic in a intentional way within a school,
higher education or university.
 Planned with particular end in view.
 Limited to a specific period.
 Well defined and systematic curriculum.

8.  Given by specially qualified teachers.
 Includes activities outside the classroom.
 Observes strict discipline.

10. “It is a type of education which the child
gets while moving and living in the community
.She/he picks up the ways and habits of the
adult member of his/her community and tries
to adopt them.”

11.  Incidental and spontaneous
 Not preplanned and deliberate.
 No prescribed time table or curriculum.
 Starts from birth to death.
 No examination according to curriculum.
 Modifications of behaviour comes without any
conscious effort.
 No need of trained and qualified teachers.

13. “Learning resulting from daily
activites related to work, family or leisure.
It is not organized or structured in terms of
objectives, time, or learning support.”

14.  Falls within formal and informal type of
education.
 Intentional and given outside the formal
system.
 Consciously and deliberately planned,
organized and systematically implimented.
 Necessitates flexibility in defining the
curriculum and scheme of evaluation.
 For homogenous group.

15.  BT Basavanthappa , “Nursing education”
jaypee publications, 1st edition,Newdelhi,page
number 16-19.
 Elsa Sanatombi Devi “Manipal manual of
nursing education”, (2006), CBS Publishers, 1st
edition, Newdelhi, page number 22-24.
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