Education to stop child sexual abuse
Feature. Child sexual abuse continues to be a widespread phenomenon in Europe despite a European convention expressly requiring all countries to be effective in protecting children. Adult education is...
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Feature. Child sexual abuse continues to be a widespread phenomenon in Europe despite a European convention expressly requiring all countries to be effective in protecting children. Adult education is...
Reportage. The EU has invested a lot of money and human resources in an ePlatform for Adult Learning in Europe, EPALE. How does it work? In honour of the five-year anniversary, Michael Sommer listed ...
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...
Feature. Grandma Came to Work is a project with a wide scope: the participants are elderly women who create design objects, break stereotypes and have fun - and gain health benefits as a side product.
Editorial. Education seems to have many benefits for health – and being able to make better decisions about whom to resort to in times of sickness might be one of them.
Interview. Research study on the ability to understand health issues, communicate about health and take decisions about health has had a successful continuum.
News story. Instead of looking for company and discussing their issues, men tend to isolate themselves. This leads to many kinds of health issues, which the Men's Sheds movement is targeting.
Toolkit. The Danish Adult Education Association is working on this question and will now share some of the observations it has made so far.
Editorial. However closely it might affect our lives, many EU citizens struggle to keep track of EU issues. For adult educators, however, it’s increasingly becoming a necessity.
Feature. A European project called FinALE aimed at untangling the complex systems of adult education funding and identifying good practices, until its funding was reduced.
News story. Finnish education export company Edunation plans to attract 150 000 students from Asia to Finland to study robotics, automation and many other subjects relevant today.
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...
Interview. Introducing a European museum project with a specific aim: to make art accessible to people with Alzheimer’s disease.
Toolkit. Behind difficulties in job searching for immigrants, there is often a lack of knowledge about the rules of local working life. In Finnish mentoring projects, the problems are solved together ...
Interview. Local learning centres have an important role in educating disadvantaged people in Victoria, Australia.
Better awareness of global development issues encourage journalists and public to challenge their world view and be more critical towards news.
Video. Two Finnish EU experts debate about the state of the EU in 2017.
Editorial. Mental health problems continue as one of the major public health problems in Europe. The good news is that adult educators stand on the side of a solution.
Three voices. Three experts share their visions for how to change learning to meet the needs of the constantly evolving world.
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.
Reportage. Is transformative education the path to active citizenship, both old and new, for people in English and Welsh prisons?
Toolkit. The World Café is a group discussion method that helps approaching a question from various viewpoints. The Finnish Lifelong Learning Foundation puts the method to use across Finla...
Four countries, Denmark, Finland, the UK and Portugal, produced together a series of eight short documentaries. The stories are testimonies of the power of learning - and of the power of internation...
Video + Toolkit. Karen Dudley and her colleagues teach English to migrant women. Their method: take language learning outside the classroom, into the streets and communities of London.
Video and Toolkit. You learn to change the world by trying to change the world, believes folk high school educator Sigrid Lauenborg Dahl. In the complementing article, the director and writer of...
Video. For Søren Jensen, learning in later life has meant both overcoming dyslexia and bad memories of school.
A media guide, produced by the Finnish Lifelong Learning Foundation, helps in the building of Palestinian civil society. The guide is a free online resource for all. Its core message: critical media l...
Former Yugoslav countries are rebuilding regional collaboration in adult education. Darijan Novak reports from a groundbreaking regional conference. Its spirit: "We must change the system!" ...
Dear reader, The story of Elm starts here and now, with this issue. Elm is a new online magazine on lifelong learning and adult education. It is for the adult education professional: educators, advoca...
An ongoing European project aims to boost quality of blended learning courses by defining a quality framework for them. Special focus is on the learners needs.