(MA) is a journalist and a photographer who worked as the editor-in-chief of Elm Magazine 8/2017-01/2020. Contact: karoliina.knuuti(a)gmail.com
News story. Increased competitiveness and more visibility in society. These requirements have become familiar to universities in recent years. How to make them a reality? A study from Finland offers o...
Editorial. As more and more people become packed into cities, all aspects of our lives, including learning, will be urbanised. But does the environment have any effect on learning at all?
Interview. What is the role of continuous education in answering a global megatrend, the revolution in working life? How to make workplaces value lifelong learning? Two education experts share their t...
Editorial. The pace of change in the world is already so fast that nobody can avoid lifelong learning.
Feature. An increasingly vocal section of Europeans believe in themselves or their neighbour more than they do researchers. Why does talking from experience outdo scientific knowledge?
Toolkit. What should an adult educator know about LGBTI issues? In education, the attitude matters more than memorising terms, says Marita Karvinen, Training Curator at Seta, an organisation for LGBTI...
Editorial. The #MeToo movement showed clearly that, for many of us adults, ideas of sexuality and sexual rights have grown outdated, to say the least. For the enjoyment and safety of us all, ways to s...
Editorial. How do you prove that you have a certain skill? This is the question on everyone’s lips in the field of non-formal or liberal adult education. My question was, do I really have to?
News story. European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) has renewed its adult education manifesto and hopes to convince the decision-makers about the benefits of adult education.
Editorial. Education seems to have many benefits for health – and being able to make better decisions about whom to resort to in times of sickness might be one of them.
Interview. It’s not healthy to tell healthy people that they are sick when they are not, says Canadian non-fiction author Alan Cassels. In his books and research, he calls for better medical literac...
Editorial. The media literacy skills of school children are a hot topic at the moment. However, the ones most in need for such skills seem to be we adults, who are even more lost in the digital era. T...
Editorial. However closely it might affect our lives, many EU citizens struggle to keep track of EU issues. For adult educators, however, it’s increasingly becoming a necessity.
Feature. Adult education has been a neglected field in terms of public attention and funding. The European Commission’s mission has been to change that. Part of their solution: EPALE, a community of...
Editorial. Lifelong learning is needed to make sure that the concept of European heritage includes all Europeans.
Toolkit. Behind difficulties in job searching for immigrants, there is often a lack of knowledge about the rules of local working life. In Finnish mentoring projects, the problems are solved together ...
Editorial. If we wish to integrate all excluded individuals and minority groups in the society, we’d better be prepared to talk about awkward issues.
Editorial. Mental health problems continue as one of the major public health problems in Europe. The good news is that adult educators stand on the side of a solution.
Education should urgently break the chains of society and economy so that learning can genuinely bring about new thinking, says Erkka Laininen.
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?
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...
As narrow-minded, chauvinistic nationalism is rising in Europe, those who value an international world with freedoms and opportunities should probably start to worry a bit – and channel it into ...
Feature. Right-wing populist or nationalist movements can be found in almost every country in Europe and many of them are receiving avalanches of votes. The movements have countless different factors ...
Feature. While the world is eagerly looking into opportunities of smartphones and digitalisation, Palestinians cannot use even the most mundane applications. For years, Israel has banned the 3G networ...
For all ‘daughters and wives’ over there: stay strong. The attitude change is on its way − and maybe it will be led by educators.
Interview. Women can, and do, learn to live in a man’s world”, says Professor Sue Jackson who has made a lifelong career within lifelong learning and gender. Before stepping into retiremen...
Reportage. Serbia is patriarchal society where gender fluidity is merely a taboo. A group of artists and educationalists participated in creation of a socially engaging theatre play, RED – a sui...
Hopefully in the future there will be more and more films with several female actresses, who do not talk to each other only about men.
Video. Flying and music are the pillars of Samuli Kovanen's life. Through adult learning, he lives both the pilot's and the musician's life.
Video + Toolkit. Finnish conductor and educator Veli-Antti Koivuranta builds his orchestra into a learning team. Read the complementing article for an in-depth look into Koivuranta's didact...
How does urbanisation affect a particularly big issue of our era – learning?
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