Fundamental Pedagogy Jana Doležalová

Out-of-school-hours education is provided by
1. a network of social organisations; 
2. the system of school facilities adapted for out-of-school-hours education 
and interest-based education in leisure time; 
3. cultural facilities;
4. mass media.
Informal education is not prepared by anyone; it is not coordinated; it is 
neither systematic nor structured. It is provided by family, peer groups and the 
media. 

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All forms develop intentional and functional effects. The efficiency of overall 
educational efforts is even stronger if activities of all forms of education are 
combined.
 
Media and their formative influence
Special attention will be devoted to mass media considering the seriousness of 
their effects. 
Mass media (periodical press, radio and television broadcasting, Internet, film) 
are regarded as an important socialising and formative factor because they 
provide communication at the society-wide level as well as cognition and 
entertainment. With this, they intentionally (or unintentionally) form an 
individual. They can overshadow the impact of family and school. Their strong 
influence can be seen in the extensive media representation in everyday life 
and in the adaptation of social reality to media reality having its specific logic 
and a potential to have even a negative (destructive) impact on education.
(For details, see Jirák, Wolák In Průcha, ed., 2009.) 
Media education means education to the use of the media. It targets
- the understanding of the mass media and their offer with respect to 
quality and importance for life and their critical evaluation; 
- the use of the media for self-education; 
- building resistance to the negative influence of the media.
In school education, it is nurtured through interdisciplinary relations and cross-
sectional themes (Průcha, Mareš, Walterová, 2003). In other words, it aims at 
shaping individual skills to adequately receive, treat and evaluate the stimuli 
coming from the media.
Edutainment
Edutainment has recently become a specific kind of entertainment within 
extracurricular education. It provides education which entertains, pleases and 
brings experience and knowledge of one's self. The means of this type of 
education include the procedures of experience-based pedagogy, virtual reality 
and information technologies.
This ‘entertaining’ education is provided by museums, leisure-time centres, 
centres of environmental education and ZOOs as well as the media, 
unincorporated associations and information and communication technologies. 
We can also find means of interest-based education (for the saturation of 
interests) in various areas of science and culture as well as corporate and 
distance learning activities and activities offered by institutions of non-formal 
education (not aimed at completing education). These means are also used in 

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school facilities to exercise institutional and protective education and pastoral 
care in education (e.g. specific church services). For details, see 
Pedagogická 
encyklopedie [Encyclopaedia of Education] (Němec In Průcha, J., ed., 2009).