EDUCATION: MEANING ,

DEFINITION, TYPES OF
EDUCATION AND
CHARACTERISTICS
EXTENSION EDUCATION:
MEANING, DEFINITION AND
CONCEPT
WHAT IS EDUCATION?

The word “educate” comes from the

Latin ‘educere’, meaning “to lead
out”, “to bring out”.

To educate means to bring out of the

child, the student, that sprit of
learning and wonder, the desire to
know, that thirsts for knowledge.
 True education is the harmonious
development of the
 Physical,
 Mental,
 Moral and
 Social, the four dimensions of life.
 The illiterate of 21st century will not
be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn
and relearn.
DEFINITIONS OF EDUCATION:

 Webster defines education as the process of

teaching to develop the knowledge, skill,
or character of the student.
 Education is the process of bringing
desirable change into the behavior of
human beings.
 It can also be defined as the process of
imparting or acquiring knowledge and
habits through instruction or study.
 Sociologist Rodney Stark declares that,
“Education is the cheapest, most rapid,
and most reliable path to economic
advancement under present conditions.”
TYPES OF EDUCATION

A) Formal education.

B) Non-formal education.

C) Informal education.
FORMAL EDUCATION:
Formal education is basically an
 Institutional activity,
 Uniform and subject oriented,
 Full time,
 Sequential,
 Hierarchically structured,
 Leading to certificates degrees and
diplomas.
CHARACTERISTICS OF FORMAL
EDUCATION:

 Full time education.

 Technical and professional training.
 A variety of specialized programmes.
 Running from primary school through
the university.
 Chronologically graded education
system.
B) NON-FORMAL EDUCATION:

Any organized education activity

 Outside the established formal

system whether operation Separately
or
 As an important feature of some broader
activity that is intended to serve
Identifiable learning clienteles and
learning objectives.
CHARACTERISTICS OF NON FORMAL EDUCATION:

1. It is flexible.

2. It is life, environment and learner

oriented.

3. It is diversified in content and method.

4. It is non-authoritarian.

5. It is built on learner-participation.

6. It enhances human and environmental

potential.
C) INFORMAL EDUCATION:

The truly lifelong process whereby

every individual acquires attitude,
values, skills and knowledge from daily
experience and the educative
inferences and resources in his or her
environment from family and neighbors,
form work and play, from the market
place, the library and the mass media.
CHARACTERISTICS OF
INFORMAL EDUCATION:
1. Informal education is the least controlled, that’s why this
type of education can not be excluded of somebody’s life.

2. Informal education consists of accidental, unclear,

quantitative information.

4. Informal education refers even to emotions, feelings, beliefs

etc.

5.Informal education offers responsiveness ready response

when interact with environment.

6. Informal education offers possibility to freely act in unknown

situation.

7. Informal education offers freedom of self-formation.

 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FORMAL
EDUCATION AND NON-FORMAL
EDUCATION
Non Formal Education
Formal Education
Mainly adults, those
Target Mainly young, Universal,
interested, voluntary and
Group Compulsory, Selective
open
Part time and Secondary
Time Scale Full time and Primary activity
activity of participants
Separate form life, In special Integrated with life, In the
Relevance institution, In sole purpose community, In all kinds of
buildings settings
Run by professionals, It is participatory, Includes
Programme
Excludes large parts of life large parts of life.
Curriculum One kind of education for all Education to meet learner
Teacher centered,Mainly Learner centered, Much is
Methods
written Oral
Objectives Conformist Promotes
 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FORMAL EDUCATION AND
NON-FORMAL EDUCATION

Non Formal Education

Formal Education
Independenc Set by learners and
Set by teachers, Competitive
e Controlled by Learners
Orientation Future Present
Egalitarian believing in
Relationship Hierarchical
Equal Right
Validated by education Continuing validated by
Validation
Professional learners
EXTENSION EDUCATION
Latin roots “ex”-out

“tensio”- Stretching

Extension is that type of education which is stretched out

to people in the rural areas far and near, beyond the

limits of the educational institutions to which the

formal type of education is usually confined.

 “Extension” originated in England in
1866 with a system of University
Extension which was taken up first by
Cambridge and Oxford Universities.

 1873- The term “Extension

Education” was used by Cambridge
University.
 Extension education is education for the
betterment of people and for changing their
behavior i.e. knowledge, skill and attitude.
 Extension education is the dissemination of useful
research findings and ideas among rural people to
bring out desirable changes in their social and
cultural behavior.
 Extension education is an applied science
consisting of contents derived from researches,
accumulated field experiences and relevant
principles drawn form the behavioral sciences
synthesized with useful technology, in a body of
philosophy, principles, contents, and methods
focused on the problems of out of school education
for adults and youths. (Lagans. J.P.)
OBJECTIVES

 The expression of the ends forwards

which our efforts are directed.
 Direction of movement before,
starting any programme.
 The objectives should be such which
provide right direction to the large
number of people to set a direction
and travel the distance between theory
and practice.
OBJECTIVES OF EXTENSION
EDUCATION

 To raise the standard of living of the

rural people.
 Extension education in our country is
primarily concerned with the following
main objectives:
 The basic objectives of the extension
education are the overall development
of the rural people.
 To bring about desirable changes in
the human behavior, which includes
change in knowledge, skill and
attitude.
 The dissemination of useful and practical
information relating to agriculture, including
improved seeds, fertilizers, implements,
pesticides, improved cultural practices,
dairying, poultry nutrition etc.

4. To make the people aware that agriculture is a

profit table profession.

5. To create an environment for rural people so

that they can show their talent, leadership and
efficiency.

6. To provide appropriate solution of the

farmer’s problems.

7. To bring the scientist closer to the farmers.