Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: The current situation in Ukraine and in the world is characterized by “fluidity” and the instability of the former “hard” hierarchical structures and institutions, widespread process of transition and transformation in all spheres and at all levels of human life. Global processes of culture transformation form the need for transformation education of adult individuals, which are able to become the responsible subjects of social processes, but not the part of the manipulated masses. The responsible approach to the implementation of transformation learning involves understanding its complexity and risk, and therefore requires a serious analysis of the current conceptual and theoretical tools, with which it is possible to study and model the processes of transformation and individuals’ self-transformation. The author carries out the historical and theoretical reconstruction of the concept of liminality and additional concepts of the given categorical tools, which were used for understanding the transition experience in social anthropology with its following extension to the whole sphere of social knowledge, namely: communitas, charisma, mimesis, trickster, schismogenesis, crisis, transformation. It is emphasized the need of research and awareness of liminality as one of the most important conceptual tools which are innovative and at he same time deeply rooted in the most significant historical and anthropological traditions of humanity. Just this notion is the key for understanding the nature of transformation adult education and awareness of high responsibility in the practical implementation of such learning.
Author: Lyudmyla Gorbunova
Institution: Institute of Higher Education of NAES of Ukraine
Language: Ukrainian
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2977902589