Syllabus
Course Contents:
1. The concepts of citizenship and active citizenship in social theory and contemporary politics
2. Identity, its nature and sources; individual and collective identities
3. Psychological perspectives on identity development; identity in adulthood
4. Individualization, individualism, lifestyle and identity, recognition in contemporary social theories
5. The relations between active citizenship, learning and identity at local to global levels
6. Identity change under globalization, multiple identities, and cosmopolitan citizenship
7. Community education
8. Social movements as learning sites
9. Dialogue in adult education, theory of transformative learning, education and emancipation in Freire’s theory
10. The role of identity in 19th and 20th century adult education
11. Social learning, situated learning, communities of practice and biographical approaches to research on adult learning
12. Ways to examine the relationship between active citizenship and learning
13. Empirical evidence on the relationship between active citizenship, identity and adult learning
Annotation
AAN500073 / ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP, IDENTITY AND LEARNING 5AND / navazující magisterské studium (Masters Programme) 2023/2024 doc. PhDr. Martin Kopecký, Ph.D.
LS 1/1; povinně volitelný předmět (Summer semester, compulsory elective course open to all Erasmus+ students)
Zk / 4 kredity (Examination / 4 credits)
The goal of the course is to present key approaches to the subject matters of active citizenship, identity and (adult) learning. The course applies an interdisciplinary method, relying, above all, on studies in political philosophy, theoretical sociology, and both theory and research in the field of education and learning. Special attention is paid to the perspective of situated learning, with individual and collective identities that are both brought in and co-created by individual citizens. It is necessary to study the problems analysed in order to understand the substance of contemporary global social and cultural transformations that are interlinked with lifestyle changes.