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Welcome to an international conference on adult learning, taking place on 18–20 November 2026 in Linköping. The theme of the conference is future possibilities and spaces for changing identities and transformatio

Teachers working in municipal adult education (MAE) have a variety of laws and steering documents to relate to in their work. This research project investigates how teachers interpret and apply them in their planning and teaching.

Validation – recognition of prior learning – means to recognize what people actually know, and particularly the results of learning outside formal education. We develop knowledge about validation, from an individual and an organizational perspective.

The project investigates how interaction between different knowledge systems and learning traditions are of importance for the design of non-formal adult education activities in Eastern Africa.

Comics touch on subjects such as ethnicity, gender and class in provoking and engaging ways. This project contributes to understanding of how comics can be used in school for engaging in norm-critical discussions through image and text.

The research group in adult and popular education is the most prominent one in Sweden as well as one of the larger ones in the world. The group act as national as well as international institutional hub in the research field.

How have folk high school programs reflected societal change? By digitizing historical records, this project explores 150 years of transformation in Nordic folk high schools

When simulation training with a high fidelity simulator is used as teaching method in vocational education, what are teachers’ intention. how do they organize it? How do students learn professional knowledge and skills working with a simulator?

What is the function of Swedish higher vocational education? How, and by who is it shaped? Whose knowledge counts and what values shape the educational communication?

What effect do different kinds of educational interventions aimed at learning the Swedish language have for migrants' inclusion in the Swedish labour market and society more widely? What do the migrants themselves have to say about this?