Adversity, reorientation and learning go hand in hand
Interview. Therapists discuss the meaning of resilience in relation to their practice. They highlight the importance of engaging in an honest dialogue with oneself.
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Interview. Therapists discuss the meaning of resilience in relation to their practice. They highlight the importance of engaging in an honest dialogue with oneself.
Reportage. A health organization trained local grandmothers, gogos, to help tackle rising mental health problems in the area. Gogos are respected in the community and easy to approach.
Spot on. The underlying assumption in the discourse of resilience appears to be that the world is beyond our control, writes Maja Maksimovic.
Spot on. Adult education needs to shift the focus from individual resilience onto multidisciplinary, systemic approaches, writes Björn Wallen.
Editorial. The journalistic media also plays a role in making research-based knowledge more accessible and visible in everyday life.
Feature. Adult education journals and publications are important communicators of research-based knowledge. More and more of them are becoming fully digital.
Feature. New initiatives in Sweden are bringing practice-oriented research into adult education. Two Nordic experts share their insights about how adult education research and the use of it could be ...
For Bjarne Wahlgren, it was a natural choice to have one career line in education practice and one in academia. More focus on learning transfer is urgently needed, he argues.
Three quick ones. The older you get, the harder it is to learn a foreign language. Some would say almost impossible. But not Hungarian researcher Emese Schiller.
Essay. The dialogue between research and practice in adult education must start with considering the fundamental differences between both systems, writes Peter Brandt from the DIE.
Three Voices. Scholars from Iceland, Finland and Ireland share why they embarked on an academic career and how they chose their research topic.
Neuroscience research will have a resounding effect on how we structure our own learning. But we need to be cautious about how the language of science is used in claims about learning.