Learning & teaching
This category offers articles on best practices in learning and teaching, as well as the benefits and challenges of adult education and lifelong learning. These articles also explore global societal phenomena and their connections to lifelong learning.
Citizenship – abstraction or reality in the adult learning class?
How are the broad concerns on citizenship actually reflected in the micro-reality of the adult learning class?
Rise Up and Rise to the Occasion after Trump
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?
Learning prison – inmate education needs an update
Is transformative education the path to active citizenship, both old and new, for people in English and Welsh prisons?
An Italian model: Blended Collaborative and Constructive Participation
In Italy, blended learning is still relatively underused. Beatrice Ligorio and Nadia Sansone present the theory and practice behind BCCP, their flexible blended learning model gaining in popularity.
The flipside of blended learning
Eileen Kennedy warns of an uncritical attitude to blended learning. The method requires advanced skills from the learner and high levels of teacher input to produce quality.
Playful solutions for lifelong learning
This article was originally published in Elm's predecessor media, LLinE.
The Playful Learning Centre of Helsinki University aims to develop playful solutions to lifelong and blended learning. The authors introduce the Center and reflect on the definitions of play at the backdrop of lifelong learning.
A critical reflection of the current research in online and blended learning
This article was originally published in Elm's predecessor media, LLinE.
This article reviews the state of the research that focuses on online and blended learning. A brief review of the literature is provided followed by critical issues for conducting research in blended learning environments.
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A trainer's account of what needed to be learned and unlearned, teaching in a Sahara refugee camp.
“Painful memories turned into something beautiful”
A filmmaking experience proves to be a source of peer support and liberation for vulnerable youth in Slovenia.
Towards holistic, contemporary pedagogies: Focusing on the body and the senses
Eeva Anttila reviews Mira-Lisa Katz's (Ed.) Moving Ideas: Multimodality and Embodied Learning in Communities and Schools.
