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The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 09:19, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that it is controversial whether indoctrination is a form of education? Source: ^[1]
- ALT1: ... that the invention of writing caused a shift from informal to formal education? Source: ^[2]
- ALT2: ... that in 1948, the United Nations recognized education as a fundamental human right? Source: ^[3]
- Reviewed: Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Yanomamö:_The_Fierce_People
- Comment:

References

^ Siegel, Phillips & Callan 2018, §3.3 Social Epistemology, Virtue Epistemology, and the Epistemology of Education.
^ Bussey, Inayatullah & Milojević 2008, p. 92.
^ Shelley 2022, p. 2.

Sources

Bussey, Marcus; Inayatullah, Sohail; Milojević, Ivana (1 January 2008). Alternative Educational Futures: Pedagogies for Emergent Worlds. BRILL. p. 92. ISBN 978-90-8790-513-2.
Shelley, Fred M. (27 September 2022). Examining Education around the World. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-4408-6448-3.
Siegel, Harvey; Phillips, D.C.; Callan, Eamonn (2018). "Philosophy of Education". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 31 August 2023.

Improved to Good Article status by Phlsph7 (talk). Self-nominated at 12:55, 31 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Education; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
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QPQ: Done.

Overall: The article meets all the requirements for a DYK. The hooks are interesting, and the article is a pleasant read. I personally find ALT2 to be the most interesting, but I couldn't access its source, so I'm going to AGF on that one. Happy to pass the nomination. Congratulations! — Golden ^talk 10:42, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm fine with using ALT2. The page from the source is available online at [1]: In 1948, the United Nations issued the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in which education was recognized explicitly as a human right. Phlsph7 (talk) 16:04, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fantastic article

Just wanted to leave a note and say that this article is written wonderfully! It's concise and straight-to-the-point; it almost reads like a simplewiki one :) — Frostly (talk) 06:30, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Frostly: Thanks for your feedback! By the way, the article is currently nominated for featured article status. If you have the time, both your laudatory and critical comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Education/archive1. For a short FAQ on the reviewing process, see Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-04-07/Dispatches. Phlsph7 (talk) 09:33, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Scope re: informal education

Is there a reason the article is so short on informal education (the concept, not our article which is a stub)? Apart from its definition, it isn't covered in summary style and the education article quickly moves to a overview of schooling and academics rather than, per the lede definition, how information has been transmitted, which largely happens outside of the school through everyday interactions (reading the news, books, interfacing with people outside of a classroom). czar 10:18, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Czar and thanks for raising this point. The main reason is probably that, for better or worse, formal education gets a lot more attention in the academic literature. For example, much more research focuses on assessing and improving the schooling system than on how people learn things by reading newspapers. Often, the term "education" is implicitly meant to imply "formal education", as in the "International Standard Classification of Education" (I don't think there is any comparable international classification standard of informal education), "Department of Education" (which usually focus primarily on the schooling system), or the education section of a CV.

The relation between formal and informal education plays a key role in the section "History" and informal education is addressed implicitly in many other sections. The subsection "Formal, non-formal, and informal" is primarily about discussing the difference between these types of education. Are there any additional points about informal education that you think should be mentioned in this subsection? Phlsph7 (talk) 12:29, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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[FOOTNOTESiegelPhillipsCallan2018§3.3_Social_Epistemology,_Virtue_Epistemology,_and_the_Epistemology_of_Education-1] Siegel, Phillips & Callan 2018, §3.3 Social Epistemology, Virtue Epistemology, and the Epistemology of Education.

[FOOTNOTEBusseyInayatullahMilojević2008[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidEXsfEAAAQBAJpgPA92_92]-2] Bussey, Inayatullah & Milojević 2008, p. 92.

[FOOTNOTEShelley2022[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidgErEEAAAQBAJpgPA2_2]-3] Shelley 2022, p. 2.