Education for Sustainable Development Non-Formal Education

Maryam Faghihimani

Sustainability Adviser

UiO

NSCN Seminar, March 2013

Types of Education

• Formal

• Non-Formal

• Informal

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Formal Education

• Formal education corresponds to a systematic, organized education model, structured and administered according to a given set of laws and norms, presenting a rather rigid curriculum as regards objectives, content and methodology.

Non-Formal Education

• As seen, formal education has a well-defined set of features. Whenever one or more of these is absent, we may safely state that the educational process has acquired non-formal features.

• Educative processes have flexible curricula and methodology, capable of adapting to the needs and interests of students.

Informal Education

• It does not correspond to an organized and systematic view of education; informal education does not necessarily include the objectives and subjects usually encompassed by the traditional curricula.

• It is aimed at students as much as at the public at large and imposes no obligations.

Informal Education and Green Nudging

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Does Nudging work?

• Amsterdam airport put an image of a fly on the urinals to give men something to aim at. Overnight, the quantity of misdirected urine fell by about 80%.

• The painted fly is an example of a "nudge“ a way of influencing behavior without offering material incentives or imposing punishments.

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Stanford Catering and Green Nudge

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Other activities

Support and facilitate: • green guide for campus • students garden at campus • Students’ environmental sustainability journal • Sustainability newsletter for staff • Campaign and stunt • Day seminar open to public • Engage and invite students to bring innovative

solutions to environmental problems on the campus • Grant for students to attend seminars or summer

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References

FORMAL, NON-FORMAL AND INFORMAL EDUCATION, CONCEPTS/APPLICABILITY, Claudio Zaki Dib http://www.techne-

dib.com.br/downloads/6.pdf

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness 2009 by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

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