INTERPERSONAL SPACE AS CONTEXT FOR ADULT LEARNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
INTERPERSONAL SPACE AS CONTEXT FOR ADULT LEARNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Author(s): Agnieszka Stopińska-Pająk
Subject(s): Pedagogy
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: adult learning; sociocultural space; interpersonal space
Summary/Abstract: This chapter includes considerations on adult learning as a phenomenon of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Various contexts of adult learning’s interweaving in sociocultural space will be shown. The category of space will be discussed, which, although hard to define unambiguously, is the basic dimension of adult-learning discourse, along with the time category. Space, especially sociocultural space and its evolving significance in the contemporary world, to which the imagination of its creation gives meaning, plays a significant role in the quality of adult learning, but above all, it is of great importance in the experience / experiencing of adult learning. Learning gives the opportunity to learn space (reading its symbols, metaphors) and to transform it in constantly changing relationships with others in the interpersonal space.

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