Osobno i razem. Personalistyczne wychowanie do samotności i wspólnoty
Year: 2016
Type: book
Abstract: Separately and together. Personalistic education towards solitude and communitivity The main topic of the monograph is the dialectics of solitude and communitivity encapsulated in the challenge of education. A man who on the one hand carries an inerasable scar of aloneness and on the other is not capable of living without love needs a balance between his/her ambivalent tendencies. Otherwise, excessive relational involvement or isolating loneliness may lead to irreversible consequences for personal development. Harmonious realization of solitude and communitivity, which enables maintaining individual boundaries and staying close with other people, requires education towards communitivity and solitude as equally important traits. Since the book highlights reciprocal relationship between the two traits, communitivity is determined by respecting solitude of an individual in particular and positive solitude in general to the extend it benefits the community. The first part of the monograph, entitled In search of personal roots of solitude and communitivity, the author examines the origin of the two traits in a person, and at the same time provides anthropological grounds for the tendency to build relations and maintain solitude from the point of view of metaphysics, phenomenology and axiology, and theology. The second part, Separately or together? Solitude and communitivity in the view of personal fulfilment, analyzes both existential phenomena and the criterion of transcendence attributable to the personalism. The third and the final part of the study, Dialectics of solitude and communitivity as an educational challenge, formulates pedagogical guidelines for harmonizing positive tendencies towards solitude and communitivity in a given person. The presentation of conditions for positive or negative experience of existential solitude is followed by a description of personality shaping aspects of the complementary nature of solitude and communitivity while proposing education strategies preparing for that complementarity. The monograph ends with a comprehensive analysis of relations between correlation of solitude and communitivity and optimization of our relations with others, education relations including. As regards methodology, the monograph presents a multi-faceted approach to a personalistic pedagogy and philosophy system in the context of a major existential issue of dialectics of solitude and communitivity. Although, to a large extent, it is a study of personalistic pedagogy, it is guided by an interdisciplinary approach. References to related areas enable developing a resilient subject oriented base for discussing such general terms as a person, solitude and communitivity, a base which helps drawing pedagogical conclusions. Translated by Paweł Zimecki
Author: Małgorzata Wałejko
Institution: University of Szczecin
Language: Polish
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7131346143