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Feature. What if the whole city was a lifelong learning space in itself? The Finnish capital Helsinki is aiming to lead the way in this.
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Feature. What if the whole city was a lifelong learning space in itself? The Finnish capital Helsinki is aiming to lead the way in this.
Spot on. The digital transformation has revolutionary consequences also for our continuing education system. It is the trainers that should lead the way, not the students.
Interview. Are you worried about climate change? Many young people will say “yes”. The concern of young people about the environment is real, and it is the job of adults to take it seriously, says...
Feature. Enough of calling masturbation a sin and sexuality education a subject about reproduction. Both youth and adults are a vital target group when talking about sexuality. Professionals working i...
Speakers' Corner. It is time to take a new look at the digital competence of adult educators. We need to agree on what they need to know, and make sure they all have the necessary time, resources and ...
Toolkit. While teaching primary school children requires a qualification, in many countries virtually anyone can declare themselves to be an adult educator. The GRETA project in Germany is trying to f...
Interview. Qualifica centres are state-supported validation and qualification centres for adults. The results are promising, as the example of Azambuja's Qualifica centre shows.
Interview. French learning technology expert challenges the monopoly of institutional validation and shares his view on how learning should be recognised.
Three quick ones. What are OERs and why should an adult educator care about them? Jan Koschorreck, a research assistant working with the German OER Information Hub, answers three questions.
Interview. Research study on the ability to understand health issues, communicate about health and take decisions about health has had a successful continuum.
Feature. There is a two-way relationship between education and health. Lifelong learning opportunities are key to better health and social equality.
Editorial. The media literacy skills of school children are a hot topic at the moment. However, the ones most in need for such skills seem to be we adults, who are even more lost in the digital era. T...
Feature. Misleading health stories can have horrid effects on people’s lives. The responsibility of media literacy and critical thinking rests on the shoulders of both the makers and readers of heal...
Feature. Media literacy is the all-important citizen skill of the 21st century, but in Finland, adults in particular are falling behind.
News story. The second Dare to Learn event showcased the best conventions and the brightest new ideas on education and learning.
Toolkit. CONEDU, an Austrian association has created a basic text on Adult Education in the EU, which has been integrated into the national validation system for adult educators. Karin Kulmer from the...
News story. The past 100 years have seen many changes in the teaching of the narrative of the Finnish Civil War. Adult education and independent studying are ways of receiving an up-to-date history le...
Essay. The French education system does not adequately prepare students for intercultural dynamic and multilingual skills, creating a gap between francophone and anglophone researchers in humanities a...
Feature. Therapy is a journey of self-discovery for the patient, but before this can happen the therapist will have learned to use the central tool of the trade - his or her own psyche.
Three voices. Three experts share their visions for how to change learning to meet the needs of the constantly evolving world.
Essex Havard, Ian Fraser and Bridget McKenzie explain why museums in Britain have taken on the task of adult education about environment and climate.
Interview. Adult education should help us live the rest of mankind's time with dignity, says Professor Anja Heikkinen.
Interview. How are the broad concerns on citizenship actually reflected in the micro-reality of the adult learning class?
Greek Educational System has played an important part in the recent popularity of Nationalism in Greece because the supporters where forged by the old-fashioned system, writes Angeliki Giannakopouloo...
Teacher students are still educated in universities to serve the existing education system – not to question it, says Warda Ahmed, a school teacher student and the chairperson of the new Feminis...
Toolkit. Only about one quarter of all participants in folk high schools are men in Finland. Men are also underrepresented in volunteer groups. To attract more men into adult education and volunteer a...
The New Year’s Eve sexual assaults serve us as a reminder that it is the men that must change their attitude, not the women. And for the purpose, non-formal adult education might be just the rig...
Essay. How can popular adult education help in struggling for a more sustainable and egalitarian world? Shirley Walters offers these three moves of pedagogies of solidarity. She draws upon her partici...
Three quick ones. Lifelong learning and adult education can play a key role in creating gender equality through consciousness raising, empowering learning, knowledge building and skills developme...
VHS Düsseldorf folk high school is one of the biggest adult education institutions in Germany. To cater for a whole city, and yet stand out among other providers - how is it done? The VHS's ...