The Necessity of Reconsidering the Concept of Non-formal Education

Reaching the educational finalities that derive from the educational ideal of the Romanian school, stipulated into the National Education Law no. 1/2011, article 1, line (3), is conditioned by the ensuring of a functional complementarity between the three forms of education: formal, non-formal and informal.In the present study we suggest both a re-consideration and a re-signification of the concept of non-formal education taking into consideration the current educational paradigms, the conceptual, curricular and methodological current evolutions and the legal context.