Three voices. A common myth is that if you have a disability, you are not a sexual being. NGOs and activists are fighting wrong beliefs and educating service providers and people with disabilities the...
Toolkit. What should an adult educator know about LGBTI issues? In education, the attitude matters more than memorising terms, says Marita Karvinen, Training Curator at Seta, an organisation for LGBTI...
Feature. New skills and training can help boost health inside and outside prison. A multi-disciplinary approach with education, health awareness training and disease prevention plays a key role in wel...
Feature. In Austria, community media has had a significant role in teaching adults critical media literacy. The inspiring case brings front a conclusion: while it is important to reflect on media rec...
World of research. 2018 is the year of European Cultural Heritage. However, the first research results also highlight questions of power and privilege. The question is: ‘whose’ European identity i...
Feature. It can be challenging for indigenous people to stick to their traditional livelihoods, culture, language and identity in the modern world. To keep their culture vital, the Scandic Sámi peopl...
Editorial. Lifelong learning is needed to make sure that the concept of European heritage includes all Europeans.
Editorial. If we wish to integrate all excluded individuals and minority groups in the society, we’d better be prepared to talk about awkward issues.
Feature. Liberal adult education has an important role in integrating migrants in Finland.
Reportage. Hundreds of thousands of refugees struggle with their daily lives in their new home land. Studying a part-time skills course or learning a local language can create a sense of belonging, bo...
Reportage. Life in India is changing from a traditional family-focused to more urban, work-orientated, which can cause burn-outs and rising levels of anxiety. Adult education could bring relief to the...
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 educa...
World of research. Active citizens, participation, social activities! This vision of active citizenship is impossible for some groups of people. Vulnerable learners may lack basic skills to be able to...
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?
Feature. Nu Sta Djunto, a movement based in greater Lisbon, was created in 2013, after the massive anti-austerity demonstrations of 2012. Following the principles of solidarity, unity and horizontalit...
As narrow-minded, chauvinistic nationalism is rising in Europe, those who value an international world with freedoms and opportunities should probably start to worry a bit – and channel it into ...
Reportage. It has been a scenery of wars, conflicts, and changing borders. Now the youth from both sides of the German-Danish border tour to tell fellow youth about living together and being Both/And ...
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...
Feature. While the world is eagerly looking into opportunities of smartphones and digitalisation, Palestinians cannot use even the most mundane applications. For years, Israel has banned the 3G networ...
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...
Validation of refugees' prior learning is an identity question, making their competences and culture "visible" in the new home country, argues researcher Natalija Vrečer
World of research. Migrants run the risk of exclusion and turning into the “Other” in their new societies, also in adult education. For migration researcher Annette Sprung, research ...
With all this noise, it is difficult to form an informed opinion to return to the origin of the word crisis. Adult education must help in this by providing media education, and opportunities for open ...
Where are we now with the “refugee crisis” in Europe? How is adult education helping?
Three quick ones A local refugee integration model combining language and vocational training with work placements gives promising results in Italy.
Reportage. Najib, a Syrian teacher, arrived in Germany last autumn as an asylum seeker. This is a story of his journey along the European refugee route, into his new role as a refugee, and learner.
Interview. The refugee crisis has stirred up racism in the Finnish society, with vigilante militia patrolling the streets. A parody countergroup of women challenge the militiamen with a message of mod...
Interview. Palestinian teacher Hanan Al-Hroub, winner of the Global Teacher Prize, heals wounds through games and playful pedagogy.
Radical islamists and far-right nationalists are extreme poles of the same phenomenon: both feel marginalised, argues diversity educator Robin Sclafani.
Stockholm-based Mustafa Al-Sayed Issa found a community in the Muslim study organisation, Ibn Rushd. Now he works there as a volunteer to help Muslims to live as Swedes without losing track ...
