What can you not give up during learning in adulthood? About thinking, acting and mindfulness Cover Image

Z czego nie można rezygnować podczas uczenia się w dorosłości? O myśleniu, działaniu i uważności
What can you not give up during learning in adulthood? About thinking, acting and mindfulness

Author(s): Danuta Wajsprych
Subject(s): Adult Education
Published by: Akademickie Towarzystwo Andragogiczne
Keywords: learning as an event; thinking; acting; mindfulness

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the adult education, mainly academic, which is still accused of a transmissive character (conservative content and forms of academic functionalism) and neoliberal entanglement (privatised, instrumental, market, entrepreneurial cognitive interests). It is suggested to take a different look at the Academy as a place where learning is an event, a slow reflection on reality, a return to the sources of pedagogy – its philosophical core and reflection on oneself. The possibility of such studying is brought up by thinking and action combined with it, as an intentional activity. The article is an attempt to answer the question of how to become a „deliberate perpetrator”, how to start careful, non-instrumental study at the university? Reconstruction of the thinking and action category was made using mainly the analyses of Hanna Arendt, in the context of Makary Stasiak’s concept of an intentional delinquent.

  • Issue Year: 79/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 43-58
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish