Abstract

GUIMARAES, Paula  and  FARIA-FORTECOEF, Clarisse. The complementarity between education (formal non-formal and informal) and (self, hetero and eco) development: a discussion based on autobiographies. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2021, vol.46, e61311.  Epub Nov 22, 2023. ISSN 1984-6444.  https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644461311.

This text aims at contributing to the debate of the value of experience for learning within the field of adult education. In this article it is argued the complementarity among formal, non-formal and informal education in a relation that is coherent in the biographies of subjects living in specific historical contexts. This relation involves a needed articulation among self, hetero and ecodevelopment when learning is developed. After a theoretical discussion, two biographical narratives of subjects that were Portuguese emigrants in France and that focus on key-moments of education and learning are discussed. This debate is directed at answering to the research question: how formal, non-formal and informal education as well as self, hetero and ecodevelopment are translated into learning? Content analysis was the data discussion technique used. Data interpretation emphasises the fact that (formal, non-formal and informal) education and (self, hetero and eco) development are outcomes of individual and collective dynamics and allow the development of different kinds of knowledge: how to learn, how to understand and how to project oneself.

Keywords : education; learning: biographical narratives; individual initiative; adult education.

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