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.
Educational games, mobile quizzes and digital badges are transforming learning
How is gamification affecting adult education? Three experts share their views on the future of gamification and game-based learning.
When different generations come together, everybody wins
Intergenerational learning improves the participants’ well-being, strengthens communities and helps to solve complex issues. That’s why it has a bright future.
Tomorrow’s learning: utopias and dystopias
Adult education experts and researchers from Serbia, Belgium and Finland share their vision for what learning could and should look like in the coming years.
Humanising the human – why Freire’s legacy still resonates across the world
A PhD student, education specialist and professor share how Paulo Freire has affected their thinking and approach to work.
The first step for anti-racist education is acknowledging that racism exists
As the far right gains ground in Portugal, anti-racist education is one of the ways of fighting against it.
Tools for democratic education
Three educators and innovators introduce their methods for more democratic learning and creating.
Social media creates new space for activism in Zimbabwe
Zimbabweans are learning to utilise social media to speak about their repressive government and fight for better policies.
Bringing women into politics
A programme addressing the under-representation of women in politics in rural Ireland demystifies local politics and helps creating tangible change in society.
Civic education in Serbia is facing many threats
Ksenija Nikić talks about tensions with state authorities, fighting GONGO organisations and the other challenges she faces in her job at Civic Initiatives.
Democracy has been proven fragile – what can adult education do to make it stronger?
Experts and researchers call for adult education to return to its roots and reinvent political education.
