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Good practices & innovation

Tools for democratic education

Toolkit. Three educators and innovators introduce their methods for more democratic learning and creating.

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Make democracy great again

Editorial. 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.

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The two faces of adult education

Spot on. The task of critical and democratic adult education is to address awkward questions, including those about the adult education sector, writes Lisa Maria Reilly.

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Democracy has been proven fragile – what can adult education do to make it stronger?

Feature. Experts and researchers call for adult education to return to its roots and reinvent political education.

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A Finnish design book for web-based learning highlights the benefits of Open Educational Resources

Initially created to benefit technical universities in Finland, the Design Book for Online Learning has found a larger audience – thanks to open access and active citizenship.

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Continuing Education? No thanks!

Speakers' Corner. Resistance to continuing education is a reasonable, meaningful, legitimate defence against the imposition of the endless learning efforts adults are confronted with.

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Managing money: Challenges and solutions

Three voices. What kind of challenges do adults face in terms of money management and what are the best ways to improve financial skills? Three experts from organisations working against over-indebted...

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How to lie with statistics

Feature. Statistics are used for clarifying big data and making it more comprehensible. They can also be used in misleading ways, either by accident or in order to influence us. Do we actually underst...

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Shame is not a good place to start learning

Editorial. What comes to mind if you think about numeracy or financial skills? For too many people, the strongest feeling is shame.

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Lack of understandable economics widens existing inequalities

Spot on. Digital and financial literacy are widely accepted as fundamental skills for everybody. Why not add economic literacy to that list?

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When numbers are a foreign language

Interview. Dyscalculia is a specific but not yet extensively researched difficulty in understanding numbers. Having faced difficulties with maths for most of their lives, dyscalculic adult learners mi...

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Increasing financial literacy during the pandemic essential for India’s recovery

Reportage. In Indian megacities millions of people have no access to banking services due to lack of knowledge or technology. Lack of universal education plays a big part.

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SUBJECTS

  • Advocacy (54)
  • Citizenship & society (131)
  • Culture (41)
  • Environment (20)
  • Formal learning (32)
  • Gender (14)
  • Good practices & innovation (85)
  • Media (30)
  • Migration (16)
  • Minorities (22)
  • Nonformal learning (97)
  • Pedagogy (39)
  • Policy (46)
  • Project (25)
  • Research (52)
  • Technology (26)
  • Third age (15)
  • Wellbeing (41)
  • Working life (28)
  • Youth (11)

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  • Advocacy
  • Citizenship & society
  • Culture
  • Environment
  • Formal learning
  • Gender
  • Good practices & innovation
  • Media
  • Migration
  • Minorities
  • Nonformal learning
  • Pedagogy
  • Policy
  • Project
  • Research
  • Technology
  • Third age
  • Wellbeing
  • Working life
  • Youth