Opinion
Columns and essays in ELM Magazine approach current issues from personal and engaging perspectives.
Between suffering and survival – the quest for Ecoresilience
Adult education needs to shift the focus from individual resilience onto multidisciplinary, systemic approaches, writes Björn Wallen. The text is a column written for issue 4/2021 on Redefining Resilience.
Adult Learning and Education after Brexit: Plus ça Change?
How different will things really be for Adult Learning and Education in the UK after Brexit, asks Alex Stevenson. The text is a column written for Speakers’ Corner series.
Strange Places: Weaving self and other in adult education research
Research in adult education needs to address inequality but not at the expense of its students, Lisa Maria Reilly writes. The text is a column written for issue 3/2021 on Research & Practice of Adult Education.
Behind the Door: access needs support to be opportunity
Discourse around opportunity and access often overshadows the realities of educational policies and structures in Europe, David Kazamias writes in his column.
There is no magic trick for reaching the most vulnerable learners
Basic skills training for low skilled adults requires diverse approaches, forms and tools, Ivana Studená writes. The text is a column written for Speakers’ Corner series.
Are you ready to make space for the unknown?
All adult educators should go outdoors to embrace bodily, experiential ways of learning, writes researcher Riikka Suhonen. The text is a column written for issue 2/2021 on Adult Learning Outdoors.
Unexpected encounters: walking pedagogies in community learning
For years, Teresa Eça and Angela Saldanha have been exploring wandering as a tool for collaborative learning. They share some photo memories from these unplanned journeys. The text is a visual essay produced for issue 2/2021 on Adult Learning Outdoors.
Creating new learning pathways with AI – the journey has begun
As the first steps are being taken to use artificial intelligence to support the acquisition of skills, many questions remain unanswered. The text is an essay written for issue 1/2021 on Future of Adult Education.
Leave no-one behind: a case for democratising access to technology education
By opening up technology education to more students, we would make society fairer but also foster creative solutions to global challenges, argues Roberta Sgarliglia. The text is a column written for issue 1/2021 on Future of Adult Education.
The two faces of adult education
The task of critical and democratic adult education is to address awkward questions, including those about the adult education sector, writes Lisa Maria Reilly. The text is a column written for issue 4/2020 on Adult Education and Democracy.
