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THEME ISSUE

New Forms of Citizenship 1/2017

Refugees and migrants as a motor to renew democracy and adult education

More autonomy to adult educators on curriculum. More encounters between migrants and natives. More support for progressives within migrant communities. Bernd Käpplinger proposes ideas for adult education in the migration age, in response to Magnus Dahlstedt's earlier Elm article.

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Volunteering against human trafficking – disagreeing with the like-minded

Volunteers at the anti-trafficking organisation RealStars are rewarded with work experience and new skills. Sometimes this may mean testing one’s own views of right and wrong.

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Working life fragilizes and feminizes

World of research. The level of education is already so high in Finland that career security cannot be achieved through education the way it once was. Nevertheless, one must constantly be better, says work researcher Tuija Koivunen.

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Citizenship – abstraction or reality in the adult learning class?

Interview. How are the broad concerns on citizenship actually reflected in the micro-reality of the adult learning class?

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Freeing citizens’ energies: “Cooperative pacts” in Italy

Interview. In a time of general disaffection with institutions and political class, Italians are developing new forms of citizenship to create an authentic relationship with the state and public goods.

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EDITORIAL

On complexity

Our best bet in equipping ourselves for the future is to retain a curious, learning mind.

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SPOT ON

Rise Up and Rise to the Occasion after Trump

How should social movements on the left in the United States reach beyond their existing ranks to organize and persuade more and more people across our country?

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Basic skills for active citizenship

World of research. Active citizens, participation, social activities! This vision of active citizenship is impossible for some groups of people. Vulnerable learners may lack basic skills to be able to participate. For adult education to help solve this problem, current studies point to the need to balance the individual and the environmental processes of inclusion and to balance its emotional and ...

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Body at gym, mind at therapy

Feature. Does our society impose such severe pressures of self-development and competition on its citizens that, to be successful, they need to resort to psychotherapy?

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Democracy in the making

Essay. The "refugee crisis" is a stress test for European societies. The challenge is not to foster migrants into pre-given democratic values, Magnus Dahlstedt argues. The challenge is to retain adult education's ability to question pre-given values.

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Nu Sta Djunto – Action instead of words

Feature. Nu Sta Djunto, a movement based in greater Lisbon, was created in 2013, after the massive anti-austerity demonstrations of 2012. Following the principles of solidarity, unity and horizontality, Nu Sta Djunto steps in where the state fails.

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Learning prison – inmate education needs an update

Reportage. Is transformative education the path to active citizenship, both old and new, for people in English and Welsh prisons?

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Latest theme issues

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2/2022

Learning and Making

What are the possibilities of learning by making for adults?

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1/2022

Engaging and Re-engaging

How can adult education reach out to those who are not currently engaging in learning?

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4/2021

Redefining Resilience

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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