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Vol. XIII Issue 3/2008 Validation of Competences and Prior Learning» Validation of non-formal and informal learning has been identified as a European priority on several occasions, especially when it comes to promoting lifelong learning for all. This issue presents examples from different European countries. »

Vol. XIII Issue 2/2008 Educating with the Brain in Mind» Educational neuroscience provides evidence that can support lifelong learning and inform educational policy and practice. But are we educating with the brain in mind? »

Vol. XIII issue 1/2008 New Partnerships and Lifelong Learning» New partnerships have the potential of bringing in and forming new teams and groups of experts and expertise, i.e. individuals, organizations, social groups and their cultures, to solve problems in collaboration for the creation of new educational possibilities to the advancement of lifelong learning. In addition to forming innovative and creative teams that step beyond the boundaries of expected and common, new partnerships can help harness the funds of knowledge generated within and across different social and cultural contexts. Although collaboration may not always be easy, causing tensions and conflicts, it can be a powerful practice to go forward. At best, we can create new understandings of learning and education - both for educational research on lifelong learning as well as for its policies and practice. »

Vol. XII issue 4/2007 Religious Communities and lifelong learning» Statistics show that in nearly all European countries one of the three big religious communities is clearly dominant; yet the religious diversity brings out defence reactions, which often emerge from ignorance and fear. The majority religion has more influence in people's behaviour than many of us realise. It is in values and attitudes, even for those who do not actively practise it; it affects the legislation, and the way we see the 'others'. Religion is based on our need to have a trust that there is life extending beyond this one; a need for safety, protection, connection with other people – togetherness. When we are part of a community there is a danger of dividing the world into ‘us’ and ‘them’. Yet, religion is only one part of our identity. »

Vol. XII issue 3/2007 Migration and lifelong learning» European countries find migrants a challenge. What kind of learning is needed to make the challenge a positive one? Who should learn – and what should be learned? People come with their cultural baggage. The challenge lies in respecting every person’s human rights, and their right to develop and use their talents and capacity for their own and their society’s benefit. »

Vol. XII issue 2/2007 European identities» European identities is an issue connected not only with the European Union, the new members and the nation states, but also with values, culture, language – and the increasing mobility. The challenge is to understand how identity formation takes place in the contemporary world. What roles do education and increasing transnational communication have in it? »

Vol. XII issue 1/2007 Learning Regions - Learning Cities» How do societies respond to the effects of globalisation? By cushioning them with activating democracy procedures, lifelong learning, entertainment. But in active communities people create their own solutions, as examples from the UK and Amsterdam show. Defining the concept of learning region or learning community is a learning process in itself, and not an easy one, as projects in several countries show. »

Vol. XI issue 4/2006 A Future of Sustainability and Equity» A future of sustainability and equity for active citizenship and a competitive Europe are the objectives in the two EU Communications on adult learning released this autumn. LLinE discusses these issues, but listens also to the voice of the adult learners, who in a powerful way describe the difficulty and personal impact of adult learning in Europe. »

Vol. XI issue 3/2006 Celebrating Diversity» In the world situation today, it is more and more obvious that we must learn to respect and celebrate diversity, not face difference with fear and take it as a threat. We all are the "Other" to some one, so we could well see you with interest and curiosity, eager to learn (about) new ways. »

VOL XI issue 2/2006 Basic Skills and Key Competencies» One of the basic challenges in the development of Europe is the educational level, the basic skills and key competencies needed for all in the future. The Lisbon Strategy, the global competition, the social cohesion and the well-being of citizens predict great changes. »

Vol. XI issue 1/2006 Adult Education in the Western Balkan countries; Health education and health Promotion» STRUGGLE FOR A CHANGE OF CULTURE
In the sections OTHER THOUGHTS and INTIME ONTIME, LLinE presents events and thoughts for readers to reflect on cultural co-existence in Europe, and indeed the whole world. Very recently, we have experienced a tragedy in Europe, in our neighbourhood, which allows no one any more to say: “I could not imagine the consequences.” Now the countries in the Western Balkan are at a new beginning.

The Western lifestyle produces illnesses that could be avoided or the number decreased. Health promotion tackles the problem of how intervention could be successful. »

Vol. X issue 4/2005 Government communication and citizen activity» How do institutions and people communicate – or do they? Do people even see their own lives in a perspective? This issue offers various perspectives to these questions through several projects, through a government program for citizenship education, and through an educationalist's program. Even the interview is concerned with communication, as is teaching in its essence, especially sensitively the gendered undertones. »

Vol. X issue 3/2005 Possibilities for a future of lifelong learning. Special 10th Anniversary Issue» In the 10th Anniversary Issue the future of lifelong learning is seen through the needs for learning. The voice of both new and old Europeans is heard, as well as the those who until now have had it difficult to gain education, the low-skilled. The issue travels from infinite dreams to the relation of the local and the global. On the way it gives hard evidence in the form of recent data. »

Vol. X issue 2/2005 Lifelong learning and employability. Special issue on the Low Countries» In this special issue, a number of studies on the developments in the field are analysed by renowned scholars in the Low Countries. The scope of the articles ranges from lifelong learning and employment to local learning centres and learning partnerships, with examples. »

Vol. X issue 1/2005 E-Learning – promises and doubts» Even with new technology, the learner should be the focus of all educational offer, the learner and the teacher. They, in the end, decide what is learned. This issue discusses teachers’ skills in using IT in their work. It also analyses the adult learners learning context.
E-learning has been applied in many areas: LLinE presents new opportunities for citizens in Norway and Finland, modelling of reality in a virtual enterprise, and new challenging cooperation developments inside some countries and among linguistically and culturally different countries around the Mediterranean. »

Vol. IX issue 4/2004 Doing Better, Doing Right - ETHICS in Lifelong Learning» »

Vol. IX issue 3/2004 Libraries, Archives, Museums and New Forms of Adult Education» The former role of a repository of information, the memory of a nation, a culture has grown into the role of an active partner in offering people a possibility to access information. Turning not primarily to school age population, but also to working age and elderly people and supplying for their needs and problems in the information age, museums, archives and libraries are finding new views, audiences and working forms. »

Vol. IX issue 2/2004 Innovative Learning Communities» What generates learning in groups and in working place, and how do we evaluate learning? What do different evaluation measures carry along? The President of the European Association for the Education of Adults EAEA, Mr. János Sz. Tóth, is a Hungarian who could learn to survive in the Socialist bureaucracy, and is now reawakening the Hungarian folk high school, his dream. In Poland, women are finding new possibilities with an awarded Grundtvig project, as are Georgians. »

Vol. IX issue 1/2004 Valuing Learning for Well-Being or Work?» The ever-interesting theme of the relationship of learning and work is taken up from many angles. Most of education has an overall goal of empowering people either in life in general or in work. Research and practice are given from university, employers, employees and projects, the impact of education through the whole life-span, lifelong and life-wide learning. The issue ends up asking whose voice is actually heard in society. »

Vol. VIII 4/2003 Widening Participation and Learning, and Special Needs» 2003 was the Year of the Disabled in the EU. What are the possibilities for the disabled for education, and how can they use the education they acquire? »

Vol. VIII issue 3/2003 Expansion and Change, Needed and Achieved» Texts from the situation of needs and challenges in education in Latvia (interview of the Minister of Education) and several other countries (Russia, Slovenia, France, Czech Republic) to the glass ceiling for women’s careers in higher education. »

2/2003 Cultural Learning for Creativity» What is creativity and how to enhance it? The issue will discuss how the role of art in preserving people's creativity in learning, business and life. »

1/2003 Learning Together and Alone» The issue discusses learning in teams in two articles. The second theme is human and social capital and democracy with a specific focus on the Nordic countries. The European and global views are brought by UNESCO and the EU. »