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Editorial. The pace of change in the world is already so fast that nobody can avoid lifelong learning.
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Editorial. The pace of change in the world is already so fast that nobody can avoid lifelong learning.
Feature. Thanks to mainly education, the global fertility rate has decreased at a remarkable pace for decades. However, there is another challenge that adult education can rise to. It’s not only abo...
Feature. An increasingly vocal section of Europeans believe in themselves or their neighbour more than they do researchers. Why does talking from experience outdo scientific knowledge?
Feature. Prostitution is an age-old industry. Nevertheless, having a background in sex work qualifies the individual for nothing. Getting a proper vocation that pays a living wage backed by educationa...
Three voices. A common myth is that if you have a disability, you are not a sexual being. NGOs and activists are fighting wrong beliefs and educating service providers and people with disabilities the...
Toolkit. What should an adult educator know about LGBTI issues? In education, the attitude matters more than memorising terms, says Marita Karvinen, Training Curator at Seta, an organisation for LGBTI...
Interview. Award winning LGBT+ Advocate and former NIACE Policy Officer Lisa Vine talks about trans and non-binary in adult education.
Feature. In recent years, Poland's women have been visible in the international media – for fighting for their rights. What brought them to protest on the streets, and what kind of solutions have th...
Toolkit. Sex educator Pelle Ullholm from long-running Swedish sexual and reproductive health organisation, RFSU, shares 5 tips on how to target the adult audience.
Editorial. The #MeToo movement showed clearly that, for many of us adults, ideas of sexuality and sexual rights have grown outdated, to say the least. For the enjoyment and safety of us all, ways to s...
Toolkit. While teaching primary school children requires a qualification, in many countries virtually anyone can declare themselves to be an adult educator. The GRETA project in Germany is trying to f...
Editorial. 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?
Interview. Qualifica centres are state-supported validation and qualification centres for adults. The results are promising, as the example of Azambuja's Qualifica centre shows.
Feature. 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 recogn...
Interview. French learning technology expert challenges the monopoly of institutional validation and shares his view on how learning should be recognised.
Three quick ones. 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.
Feature. 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.
News story. To fight climate change, an alternative to selfish "homo economicus" is needed.
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.
Editorial. 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.
Interview. Research study on the ability to understand health issues, communicate about health and take decisions about health has had a successful continuum.
Interview. 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 literac...
News story. 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.
Spot on. 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 medici...
Feature. New skills and training can help boost health inside and outside prison. A multi-disciplinary approach with education, health awareness training and disease prevention plays a key role in wel...
Toolkit. Mature age students often experience trepidation when taking on adult learning courses. Here are a few reasons why one should face their fears and do it anyway.
Editorial. The media literacy skills of school children are a hot topic at the moment. However, the ones most in need for such skills seem to be we adults, who are even more lost in the digital era. T...
Feature. Misleading health stories can have horrid effects on people’s lives. The responsibility of media literacy and critical thinking rests on the shoulders of both the makers and readers of heal...
Feature. Media literacy is the all-important citizen skill of the 21st century, but in Finland, adults in particular are falling behind.
Feature. In the era of misinformation, digital literacy skills are needed more than ever before. Most countries around the world have adopted media literacy education at various levels. However, despi...