Assignment-1

Submitted by Dr. Ankita Gautam

Associate Professor

Department of Humanities

LNCT Bhopal, M.P. India

Activity-1

What is meant by formal, informal and non-formal education? Give examples. Each has its own merits
and demerits. List at least one advantage and one disadvantage for each.

Education is a process of acquiring knowledge through study or imparting the knowledge by way of
instructions. Education is the main thing that encourages us to differentiate between right and wrong because in
the absence of education, we can’t do what we need or we can’t achieve our goal.
FORMAL EDUCATION
Formal education usually takes place in the premises of the school, where a person may learn basic, academic or
trade skills. The formal education is given by specially qualified teachers; they are supposed to be efficient in
the art of instruction. The student and teacher both are aware of the facts and engage themselves in the process
of education.
Example: - Learning in a classroom, School certification, college and university degrees.
Merits: - 1. Formal education is structured hierarchically. Student is taught by the teacher.
2. It is planned and deliberate. It has a syllabus and subject oriented.
3. Scheduled fees are paid regularly. It has a chronological grading system.
Demerits: - 1. Costly and rigid education.
2. Wastage of time as some lazy students may fail to learn proper in spite of motivation.
3. Some unprofessional and nonstandard education system may cause wastage of time and
money of the student.
Advantages: - It is an organized educational model where students acquire knowledge from trained and
professional teachers.
INFORMAL EDUCATION
Informal education is when you are not studying in a school and do not use any particular learning method. In
this type of education, conscious efforts are not involved. It is unplanned, it may be learned at some
marketplace, hotel or at home.
Example: - Teaching some basics or learning his/her mother tongue, get education by educational websites.
Merits: - 1. It is independent of boundary walls. It has no definite syllabus.
2. It is not pre planned and has no timetable; it is a lifelong process in a natural way.
3. No fees are required as we get informal education by daily experience.
Demerits: - 1. Absence of discipline, attitude and good habits as has no proper schedule or timetable.
2. Lack of confidence in the learner as utilized techniques may not be appropriate.
3. Information acquired from the internet, social media etc. may lead to the disinformation.
Advantages: - No need to hire experts as most of the professionals may be willing to share the knowledge with
students through social media and the internet. It is less costly and time efficient process.
NON-FORMAL EDUCATION
Non-formal education includes adult basic education, adult literacy education or school equivalency
preparation.
Example: - Community-based adult education courses, free courses for adult education by some organization,
fitness programs.
Merits: - 1. It is planned and takes place apart from school system, it may be full time or part time learning.
2. The time table and syllabus can be adjustable, fees or certificates may or may not necessary.
3. Non formal education has no age limit; it involves learning of professional skills.
Demerits: - 1.Basic reading and writing skills are crucial to learn as non-trained teachers are involved.
2. Students may not enjoy full confidence as the regular students enjoy.
3. Some institutes provide fake certification through online courses just for the sake of money.
Advantages: - Flexibility in age, curriculum and time. No need to conduct regular exams. It is open-ended
educational system in which both the public and private sector are involved in the process.
The answers of the following questions are:-
a. The Lakshmi Narain College of Technology (LNCT) is a technology oriented institute of higher
education established by LNCT Group of colleges. It is one of the top most colleges in India. It is ranked
74 by “Outlook review”. It is one of the best engineering institute with NBA Accreditation It offers both
undergraduate and Post Graduate Degree Programs. LNCT Group of Colleges have best infrastructure
with state of the art laboratories. It has unbeatable record placement of Central India with 1800+ offers
by 40 companies. Other than academics it also focuses on sports and other co-curricular activities. I am
working as an assistant professor in department of Humanities.
b. Yes it is NBA accredited institute. With the increase of Science and Technology there are different
models of quality assurance.
1. Institution specific models
2. Country specific models
The five Generic models are:-
1. Baldrige Model
2. ISO
3. Capability Maturity
4. Six sigma Models
5. Total Quality Management
The specific application models of ABET, NBA, NAAC, ICAR, DEC are variance derived from these models
to serve specialized means.
c. Learning is a process where after getting instructions relatively a permanent change can be seen in the
behaviour. For eg. When a student can do something after instructions which he could not do before, he
is said to have learnt. Learning occur in three domains:-
1. Cognitive – Knowledge
2. Affective – Feeling
3. Psychomotor – Doing

Teaching is a catalytic process for bringing about desirable changes in learners ie students. The basic
idea behind this Cognitive domain involves the knowledge and intellectual skills that a student will
develop. The affective domain includes the feelings, emotions and attitudes that learner will develop.
The psychomotor domain includes utilizing the above two domain in the practicability ie utilizing motor
skills and the ability to coordinate them.
This is the practice which our institute is following i.e. Teaching-Learning-Process. And in achieving
the success in this process a frame is introduced with the name of Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy. This
basically focus on “knowing what”, the content of thinking and “knowing how” the procedures used in
solving problems. This practice of teaching helps all the teachers in making students learn all the thing
which they require to meet in industries after getting graduate.