Uncertainty and unrest are moulding the needs for education
Editorial. Amid societal and environmental threats, engaging in learning might lose its priority. It is important to keep asking what education can and should offer us.
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Editorial. Amid societal and environmental threats, engaging in learning might lose its priority. It is important to keep asking what education can and should offer us.
Oleg Smirnov from the Ukrainian educational NGO IDCIR talks about their work supporting citizens caught in a war.
Editorial. If resilience has been appropriated and misused, it is up to us to reclaim and redefine it.
Spot on. Adult education needs to shift the focus from individual resilience onto multidisciplinary, systemic approaches, writes Björn Wallen.
Feature. With the outbreak of Covid-19, younger and older students in Italy and Slovenia found a suprising solution to isolation: classes outdoors.
Three voices. Meet three Europeans who became outdoor educators through their passion for the people, cultures and the nature of their adopted countries of Spain, Italy and Vietnam.
Feature. Urban gardening has exploded in popularity during the past year. Particularly for people from immigrant backgrounds, community gardens can offer an important space for participation.
Profile. Kate Rawles is a lecturer turned activist who cycled 8,000 miles to raise awareness about the loss of biodiversity.
Feature. Walking in the city is about much more than just getting from A to B.
Three Quick Ones. Using outdoors as a learning environment for children and youth has become more popular. Should we follow the same path with adult education?
Spot on. All adult educators should go outdoors to embrace bodily, experiential ways of learning, writes researcher Riikka Suhonen.
The pandemic and the rise of online learning have highlighted the significance of being out in the physical world.