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The authoress analyses the social dimension of learning present in selected adult education theories. The said dimension is evolving from imitation and mechanical perception of others, passing through the stages of experience in a social world, modelling and transmissions, to eventually reach the point of activity and participation of individuals in societies or constructing social reality. The prerequisite to social learning is always direct or indirect presence of others. The authoress puts forward the argument that social learning should be considered in the perspective of change and quality of contemporary social relations (including the pedagogical ones), contexts of learning and pan-pedagogical orientation in andragogical analyses as well as in the perspective of principal transformations of today’s forms of social integration. In the final conclusions, the authoress presents a theoretical proposal of analyzing the social dimension of learning based on forms of social integration and the type of learning (adaptational one, emancipatory one), and points out the links between the analysed issue and other theoretical approache