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.
Politics, parents and bug food
Stopping climate change requires innovations from across all sectors of society. In this article, a growing business, a political party and a civil society initiative share their views on learning and activism.
The great dilemma of education
Education should urgently break the chains of society and economy so that learning can genuinely bring about new thinking, says Erkka Laininen.
Museums are maps to the future
Essex Havard, Ian Fraser and Bridget McKenzie explain why museums in Britain have taken on the task of adult education about environment and climate.
Adult education – a tool for risk resilience in Serbia?
Beside efforts to repair the damage, numerous education programs and research analyses have been initiated to increase resilience of citizens and communities all around Serbia.
Transition movement and adult education – a close relationship
“Transition for sustainability is possible. If the transition movement joins forces with non-formal education, we could turn the tide.” says Jesaia Loweiko.
The most important issues of the planet
Adult education should help us live the rest of mankind’s time with dignity, says Professor Anja Heikkinen.
Refugees and migrants as a motor to renew democracy and adult education
More autonomy to adult educators on curriculum. More encounters between migrants and natives. More support for progressives within migrant communities. Bernd Käpplinger proposes ideas for adult education in the migration age, in response to Magnus Dahlstedt’s earlier Elm article.
Cork gains new life as environmental awareness grows
After an unprecedented low, the future of Portugal’s cork industry now looks bright. Much of it is due to the Portuguese Cork Association’s campaigning, centered around the growing demand for ecological products: target audiences are educated about the sustainability of cork.
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?
