The purpose of this essay is to provide a series of brief short cases as examples unfolding a variety of learning approaches and communication practices, which we may place in the category of organized learning activities outside formal schooling, here termed non-formal education (after the www.infed.org summary, using Tight and Fordham). However, an example of informal learning with no intentional or explicit organization of learning activities -a TV serial fiction case which could be argued to have an edu-tainment potential- is also included. Several of the cases here have a connection to processes of development and societal change.