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...
A music school for disabled learners promotes artistic equality in Finland. Time to listen!
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.
Grundtvig project Step In! collects good inclusion practices.One of them is to employ vulnerable groups in employment centres.
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...
This paper argues there is no education outside the social realm.Two community learning projects in Malta show how a critical reading of the social realities of adults is central to effective citiz...
Nick Zepke gives an overview of current research on active citizenship, outlining historical and current views on lifelong and life-wide learning.
It is now nearly seven years when I had the privilege to become the editor-in-chief of our LLinE journal. Taking charge of the journal was in many ways a smooth process, thanks to the grounding work o...
What kind of role does adult education have in responding to global megatrends and future challenges?
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