Learning & teaching
This category offers articles on best practices in learning and teaching, as well as the benefits and challenges of adult education and lifelong learning. These articles also explore global societal phenomena and their connections to lifelong learning.
La Verneda: Contributions from democratic adult education to lifelong learning
Education providers are concerned with type of participation of adult learners, essentially migrants. This article describes factors of success of education in La Verneda and reflects on centrality of learning for lifelong learning.
Learning with the rest of nature
Violeta Orlovic reviews Clover, Jayme, Hall & Follen's The Nature of Transformation – Environmental Adult Education
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?
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.
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 inspirational for teachers working with diverse learners.
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.
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.
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.
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 about active citizenship.
Active citizenship and late-life learning in the community
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 citizenship.
