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.
Making the outer inner: adults need play too
Play is often cited as ‘the work of children’, but play does not leave us when we become adults, says Dr Peter King.
Digital storytelling combines art and technical skills
Digital Storytelling helps people visualise their personal stories in a simple but creative way. At the same time, they learn important digital skills.
Learning one knot at a time
A Zimbabwean social enterprise is teaching women the art of macramé. The women are also learning about sustainability and creative product development.
Prison education in Europe: alarming inequalities and revolutionary learning
Experts in adult education for inmates in Sweden, Scotland and Italy talk about the challenges and innovations of the penitentiary system in their countries.
Community Engagement as a pillar of degree programmes in Palestine
Pursuing higher education can be the only way to spend time, if there is no work or other possibilities. Palestinian university engages students by offering engagement with the community.
Engagement is an emotional business
Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard’s research provides insights about supporting engagement, particularly in an online environment. Emotions really matter in engaging learning, she says.
Broadening Germany’s narrow path in education
Students from minority backgrounds face many obstacles in the German school system. What does it really take creating a more inclusive path to higher education?
Lost appetite for learning?
We still know little about the adults who dropped out of learning during the pandemic. Educators across Europe worry that re-engaging these “lost” learners will be a challenge.
“A strong civil society plays a significant role in Ukraine now”
Oleg Smirnov from the Ukrainian educational NGO IDCIR talks about their work supporting citizens caught in a war.
“I want education that is exciting and fun”
Meet the board: Maja Maksimović believes that learning pathways should leave room for unpredictability, intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm.
