Nauczyciela akademickiego spojrzenie na rozwój w dobie przemian ogólnoświatowych
How an Academic Teacher Sees Personal Growth in the Age of Global Changes

Summary/Abstract: The author presents her reflection on the issue of personal growth in times of globalization from the perspective of her own research results. An overview of the contemporary dynamics of globalization is given, with a particular focus on its driving mechanism and two most prominent aspects – the informational and the cultural ones. The effects of technological development are discussed from the standpoint offered by Herbert Marshall McLuhan’s taxonomy, particularly the effects of elimination and obsolescence. The framework for the description is taken from the concept of information metabolism and its disorders leading to difficulties in the development of personal knowledge – resulting from both teaching and learning – conceptualized as one of the elements of personality responsible for the dynamics of development. Those disorders are viewed in the author’s own theoretical term of information stress and are linked – empirically as well – to individual correlates such as dysfunctional control. While the author recognizes the threats to development and growth stemming from globalization, she vehemently opposes technological determinism as contradictory to the subjectivity of human being characteristic to psychological approaches. The efforts to harmonize the technological and cultural avenues of development are therefore seen as an opportunity for a new quality of personal growth, especially when attached to self-reflection.

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