What is Community Education?

Community Education (CE) is both a philosophic concept of education and an approach to the community development. The philosophic concept of CE is based on the following principles...

Community Education is
  1. a philosophic concept of education
  2. an approach to the community development
Community Education (CE) as a concept is an educational philosophy based on the following principles:
  • Learning continues throughout life
  • All members of community including citizens, businessmen, public and private organizations have the responsibility for the increase of education level of all members of the community
  • Participation in the activity to define the needs and the resources of the community and to answer these needs at the expense of the existed resources for improvement of the community life is the right and the duty of every member of community.

Community Education as an approach to the community development and the development of people resources is

  • Process which puts together the members of the community to define the needs and the resources of the community, combining them in the way it would result in the increase of the life quality in the community
  • Possibility for local people, community schools, local organizations and establishments to become active partners in solving the problems of education and community.

Community Education covers all the local population. It counts on different age groups and it means both the re-training of the working people and the social involvement of the marginal population groups: the unemployed, the elderly people, and the invalids.

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