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2017 | 18 | 89-101

Article title

On democratic adult education: navigating the dialogue between consensus and dissensus in contemporary multicultural communities

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PL
O demokratycznej edukacji dorosłych: kierowanie dialogiem pomiędzy konsensusem a dyskryminacją we współczesnych społecznościach wielokulturowych

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Abstracts

EN
In this article the author explores possibilities for democratic adult education understood as “citizenship as practice” in contemporary multicultural communities that are characterised by pluralism and difference. Priority is given to the political dimension of education and learning and to the concept of democracy, which is inevitably linked to the open space of debate, disagreement, struggle and “conflict” because these represent the raison d’être for democratic practices. Beginning with Habermas’s notion of deliberative democracy and the public sphere, the author demonstrate how this notion of democracy fails to adequately address the issues relating to power and difference that are crucial in today’s multicultural communities. By drawing on Mouffe’s and Rancière’s notion of “the political” and “politics” he rather argues that democratic citizenship is perceived to be a democratic practice in which all potentially affected members of a community can actively participate and speak as equal members regardless of their (legal) status, and where democratic practices can be experienced as learning opportunities. In the conclusion, conceptualisation of adult education and how it relates to democratic citizenship in the contemporary multicultural world is presented.
PL
W niniejszym artykule autor rozpoznaje możliwości demokratycznej edukacji dorosłych, rozumiejącej „obywatelstwo jako praktykę” we współczesnych społecznościach wielokulturowych, które charakteryzuje pluralizm i różnica. Priorytetem jest polityczny wymiar edukacji, uczenie się oraz koncepcja edukacji. Jest to nierozłącznie związane z otwartą przestrzenią debaty, niezgody i „konfliktu”, co stanowi podstawę dla praktyki demokracji. Zaczynając od koncepcji Jürgena Habermasa, dotyczącej deliberatywnej demokracji i strefy publicznej, gdzie już sam autor ukazywał braki tej koncepcji, niewystarczająco odpowiadającej kwestiom związanym z władzą i różnicą, które są tak istotne dla współczesnych społeczności wielokulturowych. Habermas, odnosząc się do koncepcji Chantal Mouffe i Jacques’a Rancière’a na temat „polityczności” i „polityki”, argumentuje, że demokratyczne obywatelstwo powinno być postrzegane jako demokratyczna praktyka, w której wszyscy potencjalni członkowie społeczności mogą w niej aktywnie uczestniczyć i mówić jako równi członkowie niezależnie od ich statusu. Wówczas demokratyczna praktyka może być także doświadczana jako możliwość uczenia się. W konkluzji autor przedstawił koncepcję edukacji dorosłych i jej związek z demokratycznym obywatelstwem we współczesnych społecznościach wielokulturowych.

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Volume

18

Pages

89-101

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Dates

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2017

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  • University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Educational Sciences, Slovenia

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Publication order reference

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ISSN
2084-2740

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