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.
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?
The winner of EAEA’s Grundtvig award, FILM-IN project involved its learners in film-making to foster active citizenship and tolerance.
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...
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...
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.
Employing physically disabled workers is not an image trick but a HR policy that affects the whole mentality of an organization.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Resilience has become as a buzz-word but is also widely criticised. What does it actually mean in adult learning and education?
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