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Informal Education: Is the life long process by which every person acquires and accumulates knowledge, skills, attitudes and insights from daily experiences and exposure to the environment at home, at work etc. Ex: Reading Newspaper, listening radio, interaction with fellow citizens.
Formal Education: Is the highly institutionalized, chronologically graded and hierarchically structured education system, spanning lower primary school and the upper reaches of the university. Ex: Primary education, School education, College education and University education.
Non-formal Education: Is an organized, systematic, educational activity carried on outside the framework of the formal system to provide selected types of learning to particular groups in the population. Ex: Adult education, School dropout education, Bridge schools.
Extension Education: Is an educational process to provide knowledge to the rural people about the improved practices in a convincing manner and to help them to take decisions within their specific local conditions. Ex: Method demonstrations, Technology transfer trainings, Farm school programmes.
Extension education centers around three units
- Farmers or rural people or clients
- Innovations or inventories
- Extension workers or extension agency.
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