Non-formal education - Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum

Adult education provides familiarization of citizens in science and culture, helping to adapt
to changes in society and the development of professionalism through continuing education. Adult
education includes various forms of learning and self-education (day, evening, part-time, distance, etc.)
and performs individual or contract basis in various government and private institutions: universities,
institutions of culture, open universities, houses of culture, folk art schools, clubs, associations, courses
at businesses (Law on Education, 1995, Article 35 paragraph (5) changed ZP107-XVI of 16.05.08,
MO107-109/20.06.08 Art .417).
Significant place in the system, definition, implementation, and the philosophy of non-formal
education in Moldova is given to extra-curricular education of children and youth. This is reflected
both in public documents, and the documents of an educational nature – in the curriculum courses for
teaching specialties 42 .
In accordance with Article 34 of the Law on Education, “Education at all levels and stages completed
extracurricular activities aimed at the development of individual skills and aptitudes, interests and meet
the different needs of the individual. Extracurricular activities include scientific, cultural, artistic, sports,
tourism, technical and application areas. Additional education is carried out in groups and individually in
various extracurricular institutions (clubs, palaces of pre-school children and students, school camps,
sports and tourist centers, recreation centers, etc.), as well as in schools. In Moldova, there are 47 houses
and 18 children’s art creative centers of different directions (artistic and aesthetic, scientific, technical,
environmental, biological, sports and recreation, tourism and local history, socio-pedagogical) where
are about 42 thousand children (about 9% of pupils). An important role in further education music, art
(107) and sports schools (86) have with an enrollment of about 49,000 children and adolescents. In
the department of social partners, the central and local governments are there are about 160 children’s
summer camps which about 74% of children aged 7 to 16 years come to relax every year in 43 .
In order to develop activities in non-formal and out of school education 2008 was proclaimed the
Year of Youth, National Center to children and young people was open, which was an educationalmethodical
institution designed to promote the development and implementation of state policy in
the field of education of children and youth, and to provide methodological and logistical support for
institutions and members of the public, service providers and non-formal adult education.
Despite the well-developed reality,non-formal education of children, youth, and adults today is not
the concept of an integrated non-formal educationin the Republic of Moldova.
Some policy documents of recent years mention sporadically some attempts of interpretation of
non-formal education. For example, in the list of measuresof the National Development Strategy for
2008-2011 chapter 4.3.1.said to create an educated workforce to keep competitive throughout the
active life, and paragraph (v) recommended “the authorization and monitoring of educational services
and the assessment of competence centers in non-formal education (including adults).” 44
In 2008, a draft Strategy to upgrade non-formal education in the Republic of Moldova 45 was prepared,
but never adopted. This project had a relative character, because did not provide horizontal and vertical
integration of forms of education, its target group were children and young people, and non-formal adult
education remained outside the document.
Another attempt to enter the term “non-formal education” into formal educational setting was a
project of the Education Code, submitted to public comment in April, 2010. In the third chapter of
the document there are interpretation of basic concepts of the project, defines non-formal education
as “educational / development activities, informally engineered beyond the didactic process (circles,
bands, clubs, camps, competitions, field trips, conferences, and meetings, exhibitions, etc.) made by
specialized teaching staff (teachers, class teachers, counselors, psychologists, methodists, etc.). It
should be noted that, in consequence, in the draft Code non-formal education sector is not outlinedwith
its significance and value.
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http://www.upsc.md/_Plan_Studii/PEDAGOGIE/F_P_I_P/PIP%20si%20l.%20franceza/anul%20IV/sem7/F.07.A.045.pdf
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по данным Национального Бюро Статистики (далее,НБС) , www.statistica.md
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http://mpsfc.gov.md/file/egalitategen/str_nat_dez_md.pdf
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