Researchers call for lifelong art education
Art should belong to everyone in the same way as health services. Nonetheless, adults inspired by music, for example, are easily excluded from art education.
“We are the last generation that can still prevent the unleashing of accelerating climate change”, says author of rewarded science article
To fight climate change, an alternative to selfish “homo economicus” is needed.
Adult education has a key role in solving some of the biggest challenges of our time, the new EAEA manifesto states
European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) has renewed its adult education manifesto and hopes to convince the decision-makers about the benefits of adult education.
In Lisbon “old is the new young”
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.
Adulthood is a responsibility
Education seems to have many benefits for health – and being able to make better decisions about whom to resort to in times of sickness might be one of them. The text is an editorial written for issue 4/2018 on Adult Education and Health.
A move to improve health literacy for the ageing population
Research study on the ability to understand health issues, communicate about health and take decisions about health has had a successful continuum.
Don’t study, don’t worry, be happy?
Education in itself does not seem to make life more satisfying, but to lead a happy life, one must be well-informed, says Ruut Veenhoven, Professor Emeritus of social conditions for human happiness. Here’s what he has to say about the relations between health, happiness and learning.
Better than well?
It’s not healthy to tell healthy people that they are sick when they are not, says Canadian non-fiction author Alan Cassels. In his books and research, he calls for better medical literacy skills for both doctors and their patients.
Men’s Sheds offer a way out of loneliness and isolation
Instead of looking for company and discussing their issues, men tend to isolate themselves. This leads to many kinds of health issues, which the Men’s Sheds movement is targeting.
Medical students fighting against health nonsense
The media is full of conversation and articles about health with various opinions and methods. Some of them are true and some only groundless nonsense or even harmful advice. Voluntary medicine students are now fighting against the health lies in Finland. The text is a column written for issue 4/2018 on Adult Education and Health.
