Информалното образование – необходим инструмент в обществото на знанието

Abstract

The article analyzes the place of informal education in the educational triad of formal, non-formal and informal education, the characteristics of which are examined in a comparative table. It is shown that a significant place in informal education is occupied by personal lifelong learning, which is a modern European educational idea. Informal education as individual, independent or voluntary learning, self-training, self-development or self-upbringing is a way of being and as such it is unique. It puts on the agenda the need for a new platform for learning in the informal era, and the knowledge, skills and competencies achieved through informal autopedagogy should be validated before society.