{"id":733,"date":"2012-12-07T18:42:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infed.org\/mobi\/?p=733"},"modified":"2024-06-18T12:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:39:05","slug":"what-is","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/welcome\/what-is\/","title":{"rendered":"What is &#8230; ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/what-next-chrisk4u-5044348760-ccbynd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4632\" src=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/what-next-chrisk4u-5044348760-ccbynd.jpg\" alt=\"What is next? Photograph by  Erik Schepers. Sourrced from Flickr and reproduced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0) licence.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/what-next-chrisk4u-5044348760-ccbynd.jpg 640w, https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/what-next-chrisk4u-5044348760-ccbynd-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/what-next-chrisk4u-5044348760-ccbynd-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A series of articles that answer basic questions<\/p>\n<article id=\"post-2892\" class=\"post-2892 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-community-learning-and-development category-education-2 category-index category-informal-and-non-formal-education category-lifelong-learning-and-adult-education category-social-action-social-change category-social-and-university-settlements category-what-is tag-adult-education tag-adult-learning tag-lifelong-learning fpost post-number-1\">\n<div class=\"hentry-pad\">\n<section class=\"post-meta fix post-nothumb post-nocontent  media\">\n<section class=\"bd post-header fix\">\n<section class=\"bd post-title-section fix\">\n<hgroup class=\"post-title fix\">\n<h3><a title=\"What is adult education?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-adult-education\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">What is adult education?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/hgroup>\n<\/section>\n<aside class=\"post-excerpt\">What is adult education? Is adult education a practice or a program? A methodology or an organization? A \u2018science\u2019 or a system? A process or a profession? See also:\u00a0<a title=\"What is education? A definition and discussion\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-education-a-definition-and-discussion\/\">What is education? A definition and discussion<\/a> Is adult education a practice [&#8230;]<\/aside>\n<p><a class=\"continue_reading_link\" title=\"View What is adult education?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-adult-education\/\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-3196\" class=\"post-3196 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-association-democracy-and-civil-society category-community-learning-and-development category-informal-and-non-formal-education category-lifelong-learning-and-adult-education category-social-action-social-change category-social-and-university-settlements category-social-work-2 category-what-is fpost post-number-2\">\n<div class=\"hentry-pad\">\n<section class=\"post-meta fix post-nothumb post-nocontent  media\">\n<section class=\"bd post-header fix\">\n<section class=\"bd post-title-section fix\">\n<hgroup class=\"post-title fix\">\n<h3><a title=\"What is community development?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-community-development\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">What is community development?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/hgroup>\n<\/section>\n<aside class=\"post-excerpt\">What is community development? The idea of community development grew, in large part, out of the activities of colonial administrators. We examine this legacy and the theory and practice that emerged. We also look to the body of overlapping ideas, including community participation, community organization and community work. In this piece we suggest [&#8230;]<\/aside>\n<p><a class=\"continue_reading_link\" title=\"View What is community development?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-community-development\/\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-2440\" class=\"post-2440 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-education-2 category-ideas category-index category-learning-2 category-lifelong-learning-and-adult-education category-schooling category-teaching-and-pedagogy category-what-is tag-competence tag-competency fpost post-number-3\">\n<div class=\"hentry-pad\">\n<section class=\"post-meta fix post-nothumb post-nocontent  media\">\n<section class=\"bd post-header fix\">\n<section class=\"bd post-title-section fix\">\n<hgroup class=\"post-title fix\">\n<h3><a title=\"What is competence? What is competency?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-iscompetence-and-competency\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">What is competence? What is competency?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/hgroup>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Competence and competency. What is competence? How has it been reduced to competency? What is the impact on education and training? Contents: <a href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/category\/what-is\/#introduction\"> introduction<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/category\/what-is\/#what%20is%20competence?\">what is competence?<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/category\/what-is\/#Competency%20and%20product%20approaches%20to%20curriculum%20making\"> competency and product approaches<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/category\/what-is\/#Curriculum%20as%20process\"> curriculum as process<\/a><\/p>\n<aside class=\"post-excerpt\"><a class=\"continue_reading_link\" title=\"View What is competence? What is competency?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-iscompetence-and-competency\/\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-4386\" class=\"post-4386 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-association-democracy-and-civil-society category-education-2 category-ideas category-index category-informal-and-non-formal-education category-learning-2 category-lifelong-learning-and-adult-education category-organizational-learning category-social-pedagogy category-teaching-and-pedagogy category-what-is fpost post-number-4\">\n<div class=\"hentry-pad\">\n<section class=\"post-meta fix post-nothumb post-nocontent  media\">\n<section class=\"bd post-header fix\">\n<section class=\"bd post-title-section fix\">\n<hgroup class=\"post-title fix\">\n<h3><a title=\"What is education? A definition and discussion\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-education-a-definition-and-discussion\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">What is education? A definition and discussion<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/hgroup>\n<\/section>\n<aside class=\"post-excerpt\">What is education? Is it different from schooling? In this piece Mark K Smith explores the meaning of education and suggests it is a process of inviting truth and possibility. It can be defined as the wise, hopeful and respectful cultivation of learning undertaken in the belief that all should have the chance [&#8230;]<\/aside>\n<p><a class=\"continue_reading_link\" title=\"View What is education? A definition and discussion\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-education-a-definition-and-discussion\/\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-2613\" class=\"post-2613 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-association-democracy-and-civil-society category-christian-youth-work-and-youth-ministry category-community-learning-and-development category-group-work category-ideas category-index category-informal-and-non-formal-education category-informal-jewish-education category-lifelong-learning-and-adult-education category-organizational-learning category-outdoor-experience category-social-pedagogy category-social-work-2 category-teaching-and-pedagogy category-what-is category-youth-work tag-group-work-2 tag-groups tag-groupwork tag-human-group fpost post-number-5\">\n<div class=\"hentry-pad\">\n<section class=\"post-meta fix post-nothumb post-nocontent  media\">\n<section class=\"bd post-header fix\">\n<section class=\"bd post-title-section fix\">\n<hgroup class=\"post-title fix\">\n<h3><a title=\"What is a group?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-a-group\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">What is a group?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/hgroup>\n<\/section>\n<aside class=\"post-excerpt\">What is a group? How are we to approach groups? In this article we review the development of theory about groups. We look at some different definitions of groups, and some of the key dimensions to bear in mind when thinking about them. contents: <a href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/category\/what-is\/#intro\">introduction<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/category\/what-is\/#development_thinking_groups\">the development of thinking about [&#8230;]<\/a><\/aside>\n<p><a class=\"continue_reading_link\" title=\"View What is a group?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-a-group\/\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-2466\" class=\"post-2466 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-association-democracy-and-civil-society category-evaluation category-group-work category-ideas category-index category-informal-and-non-formal-education category-lifelong-learning-and-adult-education category-outdoor-experience category-social-pedagogy category-teaching-and-pedagogy category-what-is category-youth-work tag-group tag-group-work-2 tag-groupwork fpost post-number-6\">\n<div class=\"hentry-pad\">\n<section class=\"post-meta fix post-nothumb post-nocontent  media\">\n<section class=\"bd post-header fix\">\n<section class=\"bd post-title-section fix\">\n<hgroup class=\"post-title fix\">\n<h3><a title=\"What is groupwork?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-groupwork\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">What is groupwork?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/hgroup>\n<\/section>\n<aside class=\"post-excerpt\">What is groupwork? While many practitioners may describe what they do as \u2018groupwork\u2019, they often have only a limited appreciation of what groupwork is and what it entails. In this piece we introduce groups and group work, define some key aspects, and suggest areas for exploration. In particular we focus on the process [&#8230;]<\/aside>\n<p><a class=\"continue_reading_link\" title=\"View What is groupwork?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-groupwork\/\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-197\" class=\"post-197 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-evaluation category-group-work category-index category-informal-and-non-formal-education category-social-work-2 category-teaching-and-pedagogy category-what-is tag-group-work-2 tag-groupwork fpost post-number-7\">\n<div class=\"hentry-pad\">\n<section class=\"post-meta fix post-nothumb post-nocontent  media\">\n<section class=\"bd post-header fix\">\n<section class=\"bd post-title-section fix\">\n<hgroup class=\"post-title fix\">\n<h3><a title=\"What is group work?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/group-work\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">What is group work?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/hgroup>\n<\/section>\n<aside class=\"post-excerpt\">What is group work? While many practitioners may describe what they do as \u2018group work\u2019, they often have only a limited appreciation of what group work is and what it entails. In this piece we introduce groups and group work, define some key aspects, and suggest areas for exploration. In particular we focus [&#8230;]<\/aside>\n<p><a class=\"continue_reading_link\" title=\"View What is group work?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/group-work\/\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-735\" class=\"post-735 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-ideas category-index category-informal-and-non-formal-education category-social-pedagogy category-teaching-and-pedagogy category-what-is tag-conversation tag-education tag-informal tag-informal-education tag-spontaneity fpost post-number-8\">\n<div class=\"hentry-pad\">\n<section class=\"post-meta fix post-nothumb post-nocontent  media\">\n<section class=\"bd post-header fix\">\n<section class=\"bd post-title-section fix\">\n<hgroup class=\"post-title fix\">\n<h3><a title=\"What is informal education?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-informal-education\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">What is informal education?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/hgroup>\n<\/section>\n<aside class=\"post-excerpt\">So what is informal education? Here Tony Jeffs and Mark K Smith cut a path through some of the confusion around the area. They focus on informal education as a spontaneous process of helping people to learn. Informal education they suggest, works through conversation, and the exploration and enlargement of experience. It\u2019s purpose [&#8230;]<\/aside>\n<p><a class=\"continue_reading_link\" title=\"View What is informal education?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-informal-education\/\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-2556\" class=\"post-2556 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-association-democracy-and-civil-society category-education-2 category-group-work category-ideas category-index category-informal-and-non-formal-education category-informal-jewish-education category-learning-2 category-organizational-learning category-social-action-social-change category-social-pedagogy category-teaching-and-pedagogy category-what-is category-youth-work tag-non-formal tag-non-formal-education fpost post-number-9\">\n<div class=\"hentry-pad\">\n<section class=\"post-meta fix post-nothumb post-nocontent  media\">\n<section class=\"bd post-header fix\">\n<section class=\"bd post-title-section fix\">\n<hgroup class=\"post-title fix\">\n<h3><a title=\"What is non-formal education?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-non-formal-education\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">What is non-formal education?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/hgroup>\n<\/section>\n<aside class=\"post-excerpt\">What is non-formal education? Within policy debates a common differentiation has been made between different forms of provision. Informal, non-formal, and formal programmes have been viewed as very different. Here we explore this categorization and some of the forms of work that exist under the non-formal label in southern countries. Contents: <a href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/category\/what-is\/#introduction\">introduction<\/a> [&#8230;]<\/aside>\n<p><a class=\"continue_reading_link\" title=\"View What is non-formal education?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-non-formal-education\/\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-219\" class=\"post-219 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-ideas category-index category-informal-and-non-formal-education category-lifelong-learning-and-adult-education category-schooling category-social-pedagogy category-teaching-and-pedagogy category-what-is fpost post-number-10\">\n<div class=\"hentry-pad\">\n<section class=\"post-meta fix post-nothumb post-nocontent  media\">\n<section class=\"bd post-header fix\">\n<section class=\"bd post-title-section fix\">\n<hgroup class=\"post-title fix\">\n<h3><a title=\"What is pedagogy?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-pedagogy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">What is pedagogy?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/hgroup>\n<\/section>\n<aside class=\"post-excerpt\">What is pedagogy? Many discussions of pedagogy make the mistake of seeing it as primarily being about teaching. In this piece Mark K. Smith explores the origins of pedagogy and the often overlooked traditions of thinking and practice associated with it. He argues that a focus on teaching as a specialist role is [&#8230;]<\/aside>\n<p><a class=\"continue_reading_link\" title=\"View What is pedagogy?\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-pedagogy\/\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-3260\" class=\"post-3260 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-christian-youth-work-and-youth-ministry category-index category-informal-and-non-formal-education category-what-is category-youth-work fpost post-number-11\">\n<div class=\"hentry-pad\">\n<section class=\"post-meta fix post-nothumb post-nocontent  media\">\n<section class=\"bd post-header fix\">\n<section class=\"bd post-title-section fix\">\n<hgroup class=\"post-title fix\">\n<h3><a title=\"What is youth work? Exploring the history, theory and practice of work with young people\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-youth-work-exploring-the-history-theory-and-practice-of-work-with-young-people\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">What is youth work? Exploring the history, theory and practice of work with young people<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/hgroup>\n<\/section>\n<aside class=\"post-excerpt\">What is youth work? Where did it come from? What is the state of youth work practice today? We explore the development of the theory and practice of youth work in Britain and Northern Ireland \u2013 and its uncertain future. Contents: <a href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/category\/what-is\/#intro\">introduction<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/category\/what-is\/#stirrings\">early stirrings<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/category\/what-is\/#development\">the development of youth [&#8230;]<\/a><\/aside>\n<p><a class=\"continue_reading_link\" title=\"View What is youth work? Exploring the history, theory and practice of work with young people\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/what-is-youth-work-exploring-the-history-theory-and-practice-of-work-with-young-people\/\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-733\" class=\"post-733 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-education-2 category-what-is fpost post-number-12\">\n<div class=\"hentry-pad\">\n<section class=\"post-meta fix post-nothumb post-nocontent  media\">\n<section class=\"bd post-header fix\"><\/section>\n<p class=\"bd post-header fix\"><strong>Acknowledgement<\/strong>: What is next? Photograph by Erik Schepers. Sourced from Flickr and reproduced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0) licence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/schepers\/10850885766\/\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/schepers\/10850885766\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of articles that answer basic questions What is adult education? What is adult education? Is adult education a practice or a program? A methodology or an organization? A \u2018science\u2019 or a system? A process or a profession? See also:\u00a0What is education? A definition and discussion Is adult education a practice [&#8230;] Read Full &#8230; <a title=\"What is &#8230; ?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/welcome\/what-is\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What is &#8230; ?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"class_list":["post-733","page","type-page","status-publish"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What is ... ? - infed.org<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/infed.org\/dir\/welcome\/what-is\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is ... ? - infed.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A series of articles that answer basic questions What is adult education? 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