Opinion
Columns and essays in ELM Magazine approach current issues from personal and engaging perspectives. The series of columns "I argue" features texts written by researchers, each presenting a well-argued statement on a topic of their research.
Unexpected encounters: walking pedagogies in community learning
For years, Teresa Eça and Angela Saldanha have been exploring wandering as a tool for collaborative learning. They share some photo memories from these unplanned journeys. The text is a visual essay produced for issue 2/2021 on Adult Learning Outdoors.
Creating new learning pathways with AI – the journey has begun
As the first steps are being taken to use artificial intelligence to support the acquisition of skills, many questions remain unanswered. The text is an essay written for issue 1/2021 on Future of Adult Education.
Leave no-one behind: a case for democratising access to technology education
By opening up technology education to more students, we would make society fairer but also foster creative solutions to global challenges, argues Roberta Sgarliglia. The text is a column written for issue 1/2021 on Future of Adult Education.
The two faces of adult education
The task of critical and democratic adult education is to address awkward questions, including those about the adult education sector, writes Lisa Maria Reilly. The text is a column written for issue 4/2020 on Adult Education and Democracy.
Continuing Education? No thanks!
Resistance to continuing education is a reasonable, meaningful, legitimate defence against the imposition of the endless learning efforts adults are confronted with. The text is a column written for Speakers’ Corner series.
Lack of understandable economics widens existing inequalities
Digital and financial literacy are widely accepted as fundamental skills for everybody. Why not add economic literacy to that list? The text is a column written for issue 3/2020 on Adult Education and Numeracy & Finance.
Tackling under-representation in economics
Economists wield significant influence over the ideas and policies determining how our lives and our societies will change. To benefit all of society, economics must aim for more diversity. The text is an essay written for issue 3/2020 on Adult Education and Numeracy & Finance.
Adult education and the cruel optimism of the technological solutionism
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 become reality only for a privileged few. The text is a column written for Speakers’ Corner series.
Adult education for people with disabilities: How do you access the inaccessible?
Despite improvements in inclusive education in the compulsory and higher education sectors in the Republic of Ireland, participation by people with disabilities in adult education remains stubbornly low, writes Lisa Maria Reilly in her column.
Adapting to the new normal: The education system in times of crisis
Sometimes systems require a crisis to transform. Adult education must be flexible and adapt quickly to changes and challenges facing us as society, writes Sabine Verheyen, Chair of committee on Culture and Education In European Parliament. The text is a column written for issue 2/2020 on Adult Education and the Unexpected.
