The Role of Community-Based Youth Groups in Enhancing Learning and Achievement Through Nonformal Education

Abstract

This chapter reviews the role that the youth groups play in enhancing learning and achievement. Volunteers from the community are matched with Explorer members according to interest and center their activities around learning about a specific career. L. B. Resnick found that in-school programs designed to enhance higher order thinking and learning skills share some of the characteristics associated with nonformal learning. The features identified were socially shared intellectual work and direct involvement in the joint accomplishment of tasks—in other words, an experiential, cooperative learning experience. The method for augmenting school learning is to coordinate some of the activities in the youth group to complement and enrich the material that is covered in school. Students must be given the opportunity to have ownership of and responsibility for their own learning. Learning is a process. The major goal of education is to produce students who can think for themselves, solve problems, and become productive citizens.

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