Wikis: New ways to learn old things
Interview. Wikipedia events demonstrate that heritage institutions are not dusty throwbacks or exclusive clubs for academics but are vibrant, modern, welcoming community hubs, says Jason Evans, Nation...
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Interview. Wikipedia events demonstrate that heritage institutions are not dusty throwbacks or exclusive clubs for academics but are vibrant, modern, welcoming community hubs, says Jason Evans, Nation...
Feature. It can be challenging for indigenous people to stick to their traditional livelihoods, culture, language and identity in the modern world. To keep their culture vital, the Scandic Sámi peopl...
News story. The past 100 years have seen many changes in the teaching of the narrative of the Finnish Civil War. Adult education and independent studying are ways of receiving an up-to-date history le...
Interview. Recognizing that people have suffered and that we have been responsible for their suffering serves to strengthen relationships, says memory scholar Aleida Assmann.
Feature. The Gulf region’s strength is in its diversity. Adult education can help to deepen the understanding of different cultures but much needs to be done as lifelong learning in the region lacks...
Interview. Introducing a European museum project with a specific aim: to make art accessible to people with Alzheimer’s disease.
Essay. The French education system does not adequately prepare students for intercultural dynamic and multilingual skills, creating a gap between francophone and anglophone researchers in humanities a...
Editorial. If we wish to integrate all excluded individuals and minority groups in the society, we’d better be prepared to talk about awkward issues.
Reportage. Life in India is changing from a traditional family-focused to more urban, work-orientated, which can cause burn-outs and rising levels of anxiety. Adult education could bring relief to the...
Three voices. Stopping climate change requires innovations from across all sectors of society. In this article, a growing business, a political party and a civil society initiative share their views o...
Feature. Does our society impose such severe pressures of self-development and competition on its citizens that, to be successful, they need to resort to psychotherapy?
How should social movements on the left in the United States reach beyond their existing ranks to organize and persuade more and more people across our country?
Feature. Nu Sta Djunto, a movement based in greater Lisbon, was created in 2013, after the massive anti-austerity demonstrations of 2012. Following the principles of solidarity, unity and horizontalit...
Reportage. Serbia is patriarchal society where gender fluidity is merely a taboo. A group of artists and educationalists participated in creation of a socially engaging theatre play, RED – a sui...
Hopefully in the future there will be more and more films with several female actresses, who do not talk to each other only about men.
Video + Toolkit. Finnish conductor and educator Veli-Antti Koivuranta builds his orchestra into a learning team. Read the complementing article for an in-depth look into Koivuranta's didact...
Interview. Palestinian teacher Hanan Al-Hroub, winner of the Global Teacher Prize, heals wounds through games and playful pedagogy.
Interview. Education, indoctrination, brainwash. Elm met with researchers Charlie Winter and Juha Saarinen to discuss learning within ISIS, the jihadist militant organization....
Essay. Education has taken on ‘religious’ features in the secular Nordic societies, argues Professor Geir Skeie. The reasons to this lie in the region's protestant tradition.
Debate. As director of Workers Adult Education in Denmark, John Meinert Jacobsen had “extremely strong reservations” against “Heavenly Days”, a debate festival organised by chu...
Spirituality and religion are an integral part of the human condition. Religion shares many aspects with learning and education: a search for meaning, knowledge claims, canons and traditions.
Is adult education in Europe linked with religion and religious institutions?
Three voices. A Buddhist, a neo-pagan Druid and a Transcendental Meditation teacher share their learning philosophies.
Stockholm-based Mustafa Al-Sayed Issa found a community in the Muslim study organisation, Ibn Rushd. Now he works there as a volunteer to help Muslims to live as Swedes without losing track ...
Adult education in Germany is often linked with the Catholic and Protestant churches. This linkage is profoundly influenced by two conditions that are rooted in German society. These are the diversity...
Dear reader, The story of Elm starts here and now, with this issue. Elm is a new online magazine on lifelong learning and adult education. It is for the adult education professional: educators, advoca...
Three voices. What are the biggest trends in social media today? And tomorrow? Let’s ask three social media consultants from around Europe.
Essay If books are dying, what does it mean to be literate in a social media-laden world?
Toolkit. Introducing game elements into the learning process may work wonders for the learning experience. Gamification designer Oliver Simko explains how.
Debate Net theorist Geert Lovink and broadcaster Marianna Fridjonsdottir both make their living on the web but are worlds apart in their appreciation of social media’s learning potential. Elm ch...