TY - JOUR AU - Gorbunova, Lyudmila PY - 2013/12/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Theory of Transformative Learning: Adult Education in the Context of “Liquid Modernity” JF - Filosofiya osvity. Philosophy of Education JA - Filos. osv. Philos. Educ. VL - 13 IS - 2 SE - DO - UR - https://philosopheducation.com/index.php/philed/article/view/441 SP - AB - <p>Modernity is characterized by profound changes in all spheres of human&nbsp;life caused by the global transformations on macro and micro levels of social&nbsp;existence. These changes allow us to speak about the present as the era of civilizational&nbsp;transition, which is characterized by «thinning» the former «dense»&nbsp;hierarchical structures and institutions, and the continuous emergence of new,&nbsp;plastic, «fluid» rhizomatic structures in the mode of uncertainty. Individual,&nbsp;thrown out of safe and stable niches of his/her existence by tectonic systems&nbsp;shifts in the terminals of ‘space of flows’ and ‘timeless time’, is forced to head&nbsp;off to a nomadic journey of self-transformations for a period of individual own&nbsp;life. In this context, the question of what modern education should be to become&nbsp;really modern, arises. The dominant role in the dynamics of adult education&nbsp;landscape belongs to transformative learning. The transformative adult learning&nbsp;theory is considered as the relevant approach to education of the individual,&nbsp;which is able to become an autonomous communicative actor of the civil society&nbsp;in the situation of a «Liquid Modernity» in the given article.</p> ER -