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Nonformal learning

Humanising the human – why Freire’s legacy still resonates across the world

Three Voices. A PhD student, education specialist and professor share how Paulo Freire has affected their thinking and approach to work.

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Tools for democratic education

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

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Social media creates new space for activism in Zimbabwe

Feature. Zimbabweans are learning to utilise social media to speak about their repressive government and fight for better policies.

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Civic education in Serbia is facing many threats

Interview. Ksenija Nikić talks about tensions with state authorities, fighting GONGO organisations and the other challenges she faces in her job at Civic Initiatives.

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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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Why is it so hard to make rational decisions about money?

Three Quick Ones. Psychology is an important dimension of financial literacy. Subconscious emotions such as shame, fear and pleasure always play into our relationship with money.

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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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Adult education and the cruel optimism of the technological solutionism

Speakers’ Corner. It is clear that moving to online teaching is not the miracle cure that many make it out to be, Maren Elfert writes. Cruel optimism builds visions for a future that are likely to b...

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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