Feature. Japan is slowly waking up to women’s importance in contributing to the country’s growth. Adult education can help support women’s careers as they seek better opportunities at workplace.
Reportage. India’s adult education system is focused on the skilled workers offering little or no help to those who have dropped out of education early. However, NGOs step in where the state fails ...
Volunteers at the anti-trafficking organisation RealStars are rewarded with work experience and new skills. Sometimes this may mean testing one’s own views of right and wrong.
World of research. The level of education is already so high in Finland that career security cannot be achieved through education the way it once was. Nevertheless, one must constantly be better, says...
Balkan has been (and still is) a turbulent region, with periods marked by nationalism, conflicts, even wars. Was adult education an innocent accompanist of the events, with no power to change or to i...
Interview. Women can, and do, learn to live in a man’s world”, says Professor Sue Jackson who has made a lifelong career within lifelong learning and gender. Before stepping into retiremen...
Teacher students are still educated in universities to serve the existing education system – not to question it, says Warda Ahmed, a school teacher student and the chairperson of the new Feminis...
Toolkit. Only about one quarter of all participants in folk high schools are men in Finland. Men are also underrepresented in volunteer groups. To attract more men into adult education and volunteer a...
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...
The New Year’s Eve sexual assaults serve us as a reminder that it is the men that must change their attitude, not the women. And for the purpose, non-formal adult education might be just the rig...
World of research. Religion, economics and sexuality matter to adult education because they all relate to how prejudice and all forms of bias operate in society. They influence&nbs...
Three quick ones. Lifelong learning and adult education can play a key role in creating gender equality through consciousness raising, empowering learning, knowledge building and skills developme...
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.
Despite approximately equal numerical involvement by gender in formal and non-formal education and training in most European countries (Eurostat, 2009), other data confirm that older men in most natio...
Janice Foerde, Danish women's rights expert gives a personal estimate of the MDG's success -and shares her hopes for the future.
Very soon, solemn statements will be penned, about finally extending education for all, about finally ending poverty.
