Antropocentryczne swoistości coworkingu
Anthropocentric Specificities of Coworking

Summary/Abstract: RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The research objective of this article is to present the results of research on the anthropocentric specificities of coworking. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The main research problem is the question of the anthropocentric specificities of coworking, specifically what these specificities are and what they consist of. In the study an ethnographic research model was used, and the participant observation, ethnographic interviews, analysis of photographs and existing documents as a research methods. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The article begins with a brief discussion of the anthropocene, followed by a characterization of coworking as a form of organizational work popular primarily among contemporary young adults. Next, the methodological foundations of the research are presented, and the main part consists of a presentation of the results, divided into five anthropocentric specificities of coworking. RESEARCH RESULTS: The anthropocentric characteristics of coworking include temporal and spatial flexibility, performance-based work, workplace learning, emancipation, and well-being. Coworking places people at the center of the work environment, allowing them to master their own tools and working conditions, and to become independent from their surroundings. It is guided by the logic of the Anthropocene and addresses the needs of young adults with anthropocentric worldviews. CONCLUSIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND APPLICABLE VALUE OF RESEARCH: It is unclear whether temporal pedagogical findings regarding human work can be applied to such a specific and relatively new form as coworking. Therefore, further pedagogical research on coworking may shed some new light not only on the pedagogical dimension of the anthropocene, but also on the long-standing issues of informal learning, the work environment and social relations.

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