The lonely age of self-help feminism
Feature. In order to fix the epidemic of anxiety and disconnection among young women in today’s society, self-help literature has boomed. The books make promises of a better life – but on whose te...
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Feature. In order to fix the epidemic of anxiety and disconnection among young women in today’s society, self-help literature has boomed. The books make promises of a better life – but on whose te...
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...
Interview. Award winning LGBT+ Advocate and former NIACE Policy Officer Lisa Vine talks about trans and non-binary in adult education.
Feature. Child sexual abuse continues to be a widespread phenomenon in Europe despite a European convention expressly requiring all countries to be effective in protecting children. Adult education is...
Feature. Enough of calling masturbation a sin and sexuality education a subject about reproduction. Both youth and adults are a vital target group when talking about sexuality. Professionals working i...
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 The #MeToo movement showed clearly that, for many of us adults, ideas of sexuality and sexual rights have grown outdated, to say the least.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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Interview. Recognizing that people have suffered and that we have been responsible for their suffering serves to strengthen relationships, says memory scholar Aleida Assmann.
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...
Interview. Introducing a European museum project with a specific aim: to make art accessible to people with Alzheimer’s disease.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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?
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?
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...
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...
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.
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...
Interview. Palestinian teacher Hanan Al-Hroub, winner of the Global Teacher Prize, heals wounds through games and playful pedagogy.
Interview. Education, indoctrination, brainwash. Elm met with researchers Charlie Winter and Juha Saarinen to discuss learning within ISIS, the jihadist militant organization....
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.