Proceedings of the 2023 7th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2023)

Formal, Nonformal, and Informal Education in China

Authors
Shiyu Zhou1, *
1College of Foreign Languages, East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, 201600, China
*Corresponding author. Email: 200623010003@ecupl.edu.cn
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Shiyu Zhou
Available Online 31 October 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_53How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Formal education; Nonformal education; Informal education; China
Abstract

Since the implementation of China’s double reduction policy on July 24, 2021, formal education has received increasing attention, while the status of nonformal and informal education has gradually declined. In this social context, this paper adopts a literature analysis approach to conduct a comprehensive study of formal, nonformal, and informal education in China. It is found that although these three types of education are in different status quo, they all have their own problems: formal education has an excessively uniform grading system, restricts students’ inventiveness, creates a variety of pressures, and distributes educational resources unevenly; nonformal education suffers from unregulated, expensive fees, and specialized training aims; informal education restricts students’ advancements and does not fully contribute to their development. The author finally proposes corresponding solutions: training educators in new teaching techniques, modifying the degree of difficulty of the learning materials, fully utilizing new technologies, networks, and media, and combining formal education, nonformal education, and informal education.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2023 7th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
31 October 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_53
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_53How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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