Can they work together? Challenges: There is a shared and long history between informal educators and formal schools and colleges, this is natural as young people are spending most of their time there. From the Progressive school movement for example, which has experimented informal tools inside class rooms (Richardson and Wolfe, 2001). Ending with the “extended schools Initiative in 2010, which nowadays, only serves areas with high social disadvantages (Nidirect.gov.uk, 2016). Nowadays, the need to use schools and colleges structures is increasing, because of the individualisation and targeting policies for funding youth work, while youth clubs and centres are not attractive for young people as they were in the past. In this section I’m going to discuss …show more content…
2- Community schools: schools facilities are open for the community not only young people and children. 3- Extended Schools: students can stay at schools after their classes, with variety of activities, and the wider community have access to schools during these hours. 4- Informal educators are school employees: they work in corridors, youth wings, clubs, class rooms and canteens. I’m going to focus on the fourth type were youth workers are employees at schools, as I’m building my argument around this model. Informal education serves common interest for both informal educators and the formal education agenda, not the agenda of young people. Neglecting the agenda of the young people means that we are dropping one of the main features of informal education (Kraftl, Horton and Tucker, 2012). Jeff cited in (Kraftl, Horton and Tucker, 2012) argue that Informal educator’s skills have been used in schools to manage student’s behaviour. Jeff in (Policy, 2013, P6) has mentioned that youth workers failed to work effectively in schools for the following