Validation in adult education – citizen’s right or a bugbear of achievement society
How do you prove that you have a certain skill? This is the question on everyone’s lips in the field of non-formal or liberal adult education. My question was, do I really have to? The text is an editorial written for issue 1/2019 on Adult Education and Validation.
Validation processes set to gain from 21st-century innovations – Challenges in certification still hampering learners
The modern world of open borders, workforce mobility and ever more digital and non-formal learning opportunities pose a validation challenge: a need to establish up-to-date methods for recognising competences.
A badge for (working) life
Skills-based badges not only recognise a learner’s achievements but also boost their self-esteem and motivation. Merja Kittelä, a teacher responsible for planning at Wellamo Community College, answers three quick questions about her work in the validation of non-formal learning.
The recognition of all learning – not a utopia but a service package!
It is time to update traditional ideas about the recognition of learning, and to adopt a model from the world of children and young people, writes Lauri Tuomi, CEO of the Finnish Lifelong Learning Foundation. The text is a column written for issue 1/2019 on Adult Education and Validation.
Open Educational Resources: Three Questions, Three Answers
What are OERs and why should an adult educator care about them? Jan Koschorreck, a research assistant working with the German OER Information Hub, answers three questions.
Liberal adult education a good first step in the training path for immigrants
At the beginning of last year in Finland, a necessary reform entered into force in which the role of liberal adult education institutes in the training of basic skills to immigrants was improved, writes Pirkko Ruuskanen-Parrukoski. The text is a column published in the Speakers' Corner series.
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.
