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Informal education is a general term for education outside of a standard school setting. It can refer to various forms of alternative education, such as:

• Unschooling or Homeschooling
• Autodidacticism (Self-teaching)
• Youth Work

Informal educators work in many different kinds of settings with individuals and groups who choose to engage with them. ^[1] The mass media (including television, video games, magazines, etc),^[2] museums, libraries, zoos, after-school groups and other community-based organizations and cultural institutions offer forms of informal education.

References

External links

• Formal vs. Informal Education, WGBH.
• Informal Education, The National Academy of Sciences.
• Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, National Science Foundation.
• Moving Beyond Broadcast and Traditional Pedagogy: Making a Children's Documentary for the New Media Landscape - a Masters in Fine Arts Thesis on education and media.