Sociology / Unit 8 Soc 1361 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Formal and Informal Education
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The idea
Formal education is learning academic facts through a designed curriculum; informal education is learning cultural values and behaviors through everyday participation in society.
In practice
A student learns history from a textbook in class and, in that same classroom, learns an unwritten norm for asking a classmate on a date.
Where people slip
Both channels teach at once; a classroom is never delivering only the formal curriculum.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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