Youth, Leisure and Informal learning

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Youth, Leisure and Informal learning

• Master-Class at Kaliningrad Regional Social
  pedagocical and Pedagogical College
• Cherniakhovsk, May 16, 2007
• by Hans-Martin Hansen,
• Chief Leisure Services Recreation Officer, City
  of Lund, Sweden

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Hans-Martin Hansen

• Formal Education
• Technical College 1978
• Military Academy 1983
• Bachelor in Social Science 1986
• Master in Supervision 1992
• Non-Formal Education
• NGOs, Culture Sports 1974
• Folk highschool 1981 - 1982
• Students Council 1974 1986
• Professional
• Welder 1978 - 1982
• Outreach Social Worker 1986 1994
• Supervisor in youth- and social workgroups
• Co-Ordinator of Drugprevention Region of Scania
  -1998
• Co-Ordinator of Drugprevention City of Lund -1999
  
• Chief Leisure Services and Recreation Officer
  -2007
• Chief of Development, Department of Culture
  Leisure 2007

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City of Lund facts

• 104 000 residents
• Growing with ca 1 500/year
• A young city with schools and University
• The age group 20-29 (21) is remarkably higher
  than the national average (13)
• Education
• 58 of Lund's population between the ages of 25
  and 64 have a university education. The total for
  Sweden as a whole is 29.
• High technology, biotech and packaging industry
• Sony-Ericsson, Tetra Pak, Astra-Zeneca
• Multicultural identity
• 130 nationalities represented among the residents
  of the City.

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Department of Culture and Leisure

• Library
• 1 Main Library
• 11 Branch Libraries
• Leisure
• 12 local areas with 18 youthclubs
• Childcare for schoolcildren age 10-12
• Youth policies
• Outreach work
• Art hall
• Sports division
• Ca 100 arenas
• Club support
• Culture school
• Theater
• Cultural support division

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Formal Education in Sweden

• Kindergarten/Preschool 0-5 years
• Preschool class 6 years
• Compulsury school 7-16 years, 1-9 form
• Childcare for schoolchildren
• Upper secondary school 16-19 years, 1-3 form
• National programmes
• Individual programmes

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Formal Education in Sweden

• University
• University College
• Working Life
• Advanced Vocational Training

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Non-Formal Education in Sweden

• Liberal Adult Education in Sweden
• 148 folk high schools
• Long courses, 20 000 students
• Short courses, 80 000 students
• 8 study associations
• 350 000 study circles, 2,5 million participants
• 200 000 cultural events, 15 million participants

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Youthclubs i Sweden

• The first started in Stockholm 1914
• Influences from English settlements, Swedish
• NGOs and liberal learning in Sweden
• In the beginning mostly organized by NGOs
• From the 1950s developing in the
• municipalities.
• Large scale development in the 1970s
• Now mostly in municipalities but still in NGOs
• No regulations in law, its up to each
• municipality to support or not.

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Youthclubs i Sweden

• - 1960 the goal was to bring in the boys from
• the street and educate them.
• 1960 1980 the goal was to bring in the
• youngsters and let them out to NGOs
• 1975 - Ideological change to focus leisure and
• community work
• Today the youthclubs are becoming a
• pedagogic arena focusing on non-formal
• learning and recreation.
• The contents of leisure time has now
• its own values.

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Formal-, Non- and In-formal Learning

• Formal Learning
• A part of the formal education system
• Aims at knowledge
• Has a curricullum
• Mostly instituionalized, with
• A specific place
• A specific time
• A specific pedagogue
• A specific theme/subject
• A specific goal
• Valuing the study results

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Formal-, Non- and In-formal Learning

• Non-Formal Learning
• Learning that takes place outside the dedicated
  learning environment and which arises from the
  activities and interests of individuals and
  groups, but which may not be recogniced as
  learning.
• Non course-based learning
• Planned and structured learning but delivered in
  flexible and informal ways and informal
  settings,(McGivney,1999)
• Non-Formal Learning in Sweden
• Partly included in the formal system
• Contains in-formal as well as formal learning

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Non-Formal Learning
Implicit linkage to memories with current
experience
Spontaneous reflection on past episodes,
experiences, events
Rewiev of past actions, events, experiences. More
systematic reflection.
Engagement i decision making, problem solving,
planned informal learning
A selection from experience enters the memory
Incidental noting of facts, ideas, opinions.
Recognition of learning oppotunities
Unconcious effects on previous experiences
Being prepared for emergent learning
opportunities
Planned learning goals. Planned learning
opportunities.
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In-Formal Learning

• Learning while not being aware learning
• Having fun
• Doing what you like to do
• Doing things together
• Deepening your own interests
• Everyday learning
• On-going during Formal and Non-Formal Learning
• Self-education
• Self-directed learning

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The Goals Tasks of Leisure Lund

• The contribution of Leisure Lund aims at
  promoting
• Democracy
• Liberal Learning
• Public Health
• Recreation
• Finding your own leisure activities
• Target groups
• Residents of Lund
• Young people from 10 years shall be focused
• Everyone shall be given the right to participate

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Democracy
INFLUENCE
COMPLICITY
PARTICIPATION
ACCESABILITY
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Liberal Learning

• Non-Formal Learning in the institutions
• Pedagogues focus on animation
• Animation is that stimulus to the mental,
  physical, and emotional life of people in a given
  area which moves them to undertake a wider range
  of experiences through which they find a higher
  degree of self-realization, self expression, and
  awareness of belonging to a community which they
  can influence. (Simpson 1989)

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Public Health

• Leisure Lund is a part of giving the residents
• of the city opportunities to strenghten their
• health.
• Informal health-education
• Oppurtunities to fysical, cultural and mental
  activities

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Leisure Lund VS Schools of Lund

• Parts of the same goal
• Lund is a great place to live and but can be
  better
• Supporting each others in giving the best
  oppotunities for young people
• Completing each others in being different arenas
  for learning

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Main objective of the Youth Policy

• In Lund young people shall have
• influence of their situation of life and
• good opportunities for learning and
• personal development.

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Conclusions

• You learn around the clock 24 hours a day.
• Leisure is an important arena for qualification.
• School might be the foundation for employability
  but informal learning in the family and outside
  school, in NGOs and leisure, comes on the top.
• There is no conflict between school leisure
• We have to develop the pedagogics of leisure

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Contact info

• Hans-Martin Hansen
• E-mail
• hans-martin.hansen_at_lund.se
• Mail
• Hans-Martin Hansen
• Kultur Fritid
• Box 41
• 221 00 LUND
• SWEDEN

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Non-Formal Learning