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Culture

In Lisbon “old is the new young”

Feature. Grandma Came to Work is a project with a wide scope: the participants are elderly women who create design objects, break stereotypes and have fun - and gain health benefits as a side product.

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Fake News plagues India’s WhatsApp users

News story. Due to rapid technology advancement in India, digital literacy has had too little time to develop. Now both the government and social media platforms have woken up to the massive problem o...

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Towards platform literacy

Spot on. By giving everyone a voice on the net we assumed that people would use this new power wisely, but we greatly underestimated our potential for hate and manipulation, writes e-learning speciali...

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”Adult education in Eastern Europe relies heavily on the European Social Fund”

Three voices. The EU offers funding and transnational learning opportunities – but it could do even more for adult education. In three articles, professionals from Germany, Romania and the United K...

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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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Taking the Sámi language back

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...

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How to change history?

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...

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“We are a collective memory”

Interview. Recognizing that people have suffered and that we have been responsible for their suffering serves to strengthen relationships, says memory scholar Aleida Assmann.

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The Gulf countries’ diversity can help to create an environment of learning

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...

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Everyone can enjoy art – and should have the possibility to do so

Interview. Introducing a European museum project with a specific aim: to make art accessible to people with Alzheimer’s disease.

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Lack of a common language still a barrier in research communities

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...

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“Peace is a long series of conflicts”

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.

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India’s hidden mental health problem

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...

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Politics, parents and bug food

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...

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Body at gym, mind at therapy

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?

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Rise Up and Rise to the Occasion after Trump

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?

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Nu Sta Djunto – Action instead of words

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...

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Staged Misogyny

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...

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The men smiling on screens

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.

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Building harmony

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...

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”Hate surrounds the children, hate is not within them”

Interview. Palestinian teacher Hanan Al-Hroub, winner of the Global Teacher Prize, heals wounds through games and playful pedagogy.  

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Broken learning

Interview. Education, indoctrination, brainwash. Elm met with researchers Charlie Winter and Juha Saarinen to discuss learning within ISIS, the jihadist militant organization....

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Is education the “religion” of our secular society?

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. 

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Workers liberation versus religious faith

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...

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Religion and Adult Education

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.

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Overview: religion and adult education in four corners of Europe

Is adult education in Europe linked with religion and religious institutions?

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”Open yet critical” – Learning on a spiritual path

Three voices. A Buddhist, a neo-pagan Druid and a Transcendental Meditation teacher share their learning philosophies.

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A sense of belonging

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 ...

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“Catholics” and “Protestants” – is German adult education rooted in the Church?

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...

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Planting a seed

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...

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SUBJECTS

  • Advocacy (39)
  • Citizenship & society (105)
  • Culture (36)
  • Environment (14)
  • Formal learning (45)
  • Gender (16)
  • Good practices & innovation (74)
  • Media (39)
  • Migration (25)
  • Minorities (33)
  • Nonformal learning (102)
  • Pedagogy (33)
  • Policy (38)
  • Project (29)
  • Research (50)
  • Technology (15)
  • Third age (3)
  • Wellbeing (15)
  • Working life (25)
  • Youth (18)

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Subjects

  • Advocacy
  • Citizenship & society
  • Culture
  • Environment
  • Formal learning
  • Gender
  • Good practices & innovation
  • Media
  • Migration
  • Minorities
  • Nonformal learning
  • Pedagogy
  • Policy
  • Project
  • Research
  • Technology
  • Third age
  • Wellbeing
  • Working life
  • Youth