The lost languages
Language schools across Europe are dealing with the pandemic with varying degrees of success. A lot of it comes down to how governments are helping – or not helping - them.
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Language schools across Europe are dealing with the pandemic with varying degrees of success. A lot of it comes down to how governments are helping – or not helping - them.
Essay. As the first steps are being taken to use artificial intelligence to support the acquisition of skills, many questions remain unanswered.
Three Quick Ones. For the future of lifelong learning, one key challenge is to recognise and showcase learning wherever it happens. Cities of Learning Programme aims to do just this.
Editorial. Technology alone cannot solve the big challenges of the coming decades. Soft skills are needed more and more, but do we understand what learning these skills requires in the digital world?
Feature. Empathy is a necessary skill in the future, when humankind is solving more and more complex global problems together. Increasing empathy in societies has become a more prominent issue.
Feature. Intergenerational learning improves the participants’ well-being, strengthens communities and helps to solve complex issues. That’s why it has a bright future.
Three Voices. Adult education experts and researchers from Serbia, Belgium and Finland share their vision for what learning could and should look like in the coming years.
Interview. How does a futurist view lifelong learning? We talked to Perttu Pölönen about the effects of e-learning, the changing role of validation and the skills that separate us from machines.
Three Voices. A PhD student, education specialist and professor share how Paulo Freire has affected their thinking and approach to work.
News story. Climate change can be influenced on many different levels: through personal choices, national legislation and international agreements.
Reportage. As the far right gains ground in Portugal, anti-racist education is one of the ways of fighting against it.
Toolkit. Three educators and innovators introduce their methods for more democratic learning and creating.