From the Editorial team
Fact-checking recipe for chocolate chip cookies
AI workshop at an elementary school in Helsinki showed that kids are already familiar with principles of critical reading. The text is an editorial written for issue 1/2023 on Future of Literacy.
Should we all embrace maker learning?
Some people might naturally be more “hands-on” learners than others – but we could all benefit from exploring learning through making.The text is an editorial written for issue 2/2022 on Learning and Making.
Uncertainty and unrest are moulding the needs for education
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. The text is an editorial written for issue 1/2022 on Engaging and Re-engaging.
Exploring a contradictory topic requires both critical analysis and openness
If resilience has been appropriated and misused, it is up to us to reclaim and redefine it. The text is an editorial written for issue 4/2021 on Redefining Resilience.
Elm examines learning resilience with OEB
Elm Magazine partners up with Online Educa Berlin for a theme issue in which Elm Magazine examines what resilience in adult education means right now and in the future.
Journalism should be a bridge builder
The journalistic media also plays a role in making research-based knowledge more accessible and visible in everyday life. The text is an editorial written for issue 3/2021 on Research & Practice of Adult Education.
Elm autumn issue 2021 examines research and practice in adult education
Journalistic media such as Elm Magazine can have an important role as a connector between research and practice. For the upcoming theme issue, Elm partners with the Year of Research-based knowledge.
Let’s not forget the world on our doorstep
The pandemic and the rise of online learning have highlighted the significance of being out in the physical world.
How do we learn to be a human in the digital era?
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? The text is an editorial written for issue 1/2021 on Future of Adult Education.
Make democracy great again
If people are fed up with democracy, educators need to come up with new ways to demonstrate the tangible value of democracy but also facilitate open discussion about its failings. The text is an editorial written for issue 4/2020 on Adult Education and Democracy.
