The Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto and its rather limited vision of exactly what this entails has prompted me to consider the relationship between youth work and non-formal methods of "learning" and education generally.
We are currently in a climate where the focus is very much on skills and education; school, of course, has been the traditional locus for this, although we are seeing a growing government recognition of the importance of workplace learning, particularly for those young people who choose not to stay on at school.
However, not on the radar at all is non-formal education both outside school and outside the training environment in the workplace.
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