Educational support material - Nonformal educational activities HRYO EN | Page 3

Introduzione
What we intend to formulate in this short guide is a small orien-
tation path for those who intend to approach non-formal educa-
tion pathways; often who approaches this world, sometimes even
receiving project approvals, considers non-formal education as
a set of childish games sustaining the learning process. Often
people tend to mistake non-formal learning with informal lear-
ning and vice-versa. For those who want to approach education,
it must be very clear that human dynamics are influenced by so
many causes, both internal and external. Every sentient being
experiences learning during daily life dynamics, these are exactly
the dynamics that must be recognized in order to reach the re-
sults that each educator seeks to achieve. Non-formal education
is an ancient method, refined over the years, which has the pe-
culiarity to be developed mainly by its end-user. In order to allow
young people to be protagonists of their learning, however, it is
necessary to know the method really well in order to stimulate
such dynamics. To do so,at first you must destabilize the lear-
ners’ approach, to stimulate curiosity, to provide them with the
means to develop this path, and finally to foster the recognition
process of the acquired skills.
Therefore we will try to provide a brief distinction between the
different types of education and finally describe one of the most
well-known tools for the recognition of skills, the “YouthPass”.
We will try to explain better these aspects by using as an example
a project realized by H.R.Y.O. Human Rights Youth Organization
and finally, we will show in detail some of the non-formal activi-
ties we have conceived and developed over the last few years in
several projects with many young people coming from different
countries.
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