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This study is an attempt to look at university education as an important developmental task and an element of young adults’ life project. Both the expert literature and the results of empirical research make it possible to treat higher education as an important element of entering adulthood and undertaking mature social and professional roles. Fulfilling those roles enables the young to collect life experience and to crystallize their mature life project. That project comprises many tasks the fulfilment of which allows young people to become adults and to build a mature identity. Becoming an adult occurs very individually, with the use of one’s own experience, resources, and competences. Therefore, the final developmental task can be viewed as the pursuit of adulthood and as undertaking mature obligations. In the case of young adults studying at university, that task involves the fulfilment of many social and (pro-)professional roles. Moreover, university students are provided with the possibility of verifying their current choices and investments in their own future before undertaking permanent obligations. In this context, it seems worth to raise questions of how students perceive this psychological period, how they find their place and what importance education has in their life project.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is recognized as one of the most dramatic global health, social, and economic crises of the last decades, and maybe the whole century. Therefore, it is obvious that there is a need to examine the constructs of new thinking, new ways of life, and new behavior, which will help people not only to overcome the pandemic but also to build a future after it. The words isolation, quarantine, social distancing, lockdown, masks, antibodies, and zoom meeting quickly became the keywords of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, which is based on an analysis of the scientific literature and interviews, we ask whether new behavioral patterns such as social distancing, mask-wearing, online communication, and others might become the “new normal”. However, what might be perceived as the “new normal” to some, may seem like social absurdity to others. Thus, with an open-minded approach, we analyze the “new normal” as a complex, controversial, and evolving concept.
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The study is an attempt at finding out the place of university education in the process of building a life project by young adults - students from Cieszyn in the Polish-Czech borderland. An important motif is undertaken here of young adults’ attitude to education, understood not only as the process of increasing their level of education, but mostly as raising their life competences and satisfaction with their life. One of the tangible effects of this process should be more conscious decision making and taking responsibility for oneself - for one’s life and choices. The group which can be most directly affected by this are university students, who are referred to in this study as “young adults”. They face a chance to acquire new skills in viewing the world and their place in it, which should grow along with the chance to notice and multiply their own resources in order to secure their future. The young adults studying at university in the Polish-Czech borderland constitute a group for whom this educational stage is a pass to adulthood and the events taking place in that stage co-create the quality of their life. These young adults are aware of the need to keep a high status of their knowledge and competences through profiled lifelong education, which is favourable for the evaluation of their life both as compliant with the developmental task for this period and as satisfying at this stage.
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Opracowanie jest próbą spojrzenia na miejsce, jakie zajmuje edukacja uniwersytecka w procesie budowania projektu życiowego przez młodych dorosłych/cieszyńskich studentów na pograniczu polsko-czeskim. W tekście podjęty został ważny wątek, opisujący stosunek młodych ludzi do kształcenia, rozumianego nie tylko jako proces podnoszenia poziomu swojego wykształcenia, ale - w głównej mierze - wzrostu życiowych kompetencji, a także podnoszenia poziomu zadowolenia ze swojego życia. Jednym z wymiernych efektów tego procesu powinno być bardziej świadome podejmowanie decyzji i odpowiedzialności za siebie, a także własne życie i dokonywane wybory. Grupą, która w sposób najbardziej bezpośredni może tego doświadczać, jest młodzież studiująca, w tym opracowaniu opisywana jako „młodzi dorośli”. Przed nią bowiem otwiera się szansa nabywania nowych umiejętności w oglądzie świata i swojego w nim miejsca, które wzrastać powinny wraz z okazją do zauważania i pomnażania własnych zasobów, by łatwiej zabezpieczyć swoją przyszłość. Studiujący młodzi dorośli na pograniczu polsko-czeskim stanowią grupę, dla której ten etap edukacji jest przepustką do dojrzałości, a obecne w nim wydarzenia współtworzą jakość ich życia. Wspomniani młodzi dorośli są świadomi potrzeby utrzymania wysokiego statusu wiedzy i kompetencji za pośrednictwem sprofilowanej i ustawicznej edukacji, co sprzyja ocenie ich własnego życia jako zgodnego z zadaniem rozwojowym tego okresu i satysfakcjonującego na tym etapie.
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