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Active Citizenship 2/2013

Careerists or Educational Aspirants? – (Re-)entry of European Lifelong Learners into Higher Education.

Little research exists on lifelong learners' motives for studying at university level. This paper fills this gap and gives LLL program designers important insight into learner profiles.

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EAEA aims at more diversity in adult education

Targeting vulnerable groups with outreach schemes involves the danger of forming problem groups and thereby reinforcing exclusion. How will EAEA avoid this pitfall in their upcoming project?

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Silver screen in the service of learning

The winner of EAEA’s Grundtvig award, FILM-IN project involved its learners in film-making to foster active citizenship and tolerance. 

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Know yourself! – living with dyslexia

This article was originally published in Elm's predecessor media, LLinE.The path to coping with dyslexia leads from self-awareness to self-advocacy. The author's grassroots viewpoint is insp...

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It’s about us! Reflections on Education for Active Citizenship within the European Union

This article was originally published in Elm's predecessor media, LLinE. What exactly is an EU citizen? The authors argue that EU citizenship education is a strategy for legitimising the Union...

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The Knowledge Volunteers

In the "Knowledge Volunteers" project seniors were taught ICT skills by young peers. The low-threshold human contact alleviated “techno-fear” for the older learners.

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Corporate social responsibility and employing the disabled – marketing, PR or untapped reserve?

Employing physically disabled workers is not an image trick but a HR policy that affects the whole mentality of an organization.

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Rethinking Learning for Citizenship: To be equal and yet different

Greece in crisis is in dire need of learning for citizenship. A number of projects based on Learning by Design Framework have already had positive results.

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Orientation

Active citizenship – Orientation Active citizenship is the golden ideal of democracy. Empowering learners into informed and enlightened societal actors is also a goal of adult education. We are also...

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Active citizens: a task for schools

According to the young Finnish politician Li Andersson, promoting people’s participation in society is a task for schools. For her it is important to use understandable language when speaking...

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Sustainable citizenship as practice

A discourse of “citizenship-as-achievement” affects education for sustainable development. The authors shift the focus from competences that citizens must acquire to democratic educatio...

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Fourth Way Futures

Focus on testing and ranking is bad for schools. Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley propose an alternative, the "Fourth Way". Active citizens taking part in education planning are central...

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Adult Education and Democracy

Democracy needs constant work to function. How can adult education help?

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3/2020

Adult education and Numeracy&Finance

What are the real needs for numeracy and financial literacy education for adults?

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2/2020

Adult Education and the Unexpected

How can adult education best respond to change and help people deal with unpredictable events in life?

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