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Title:

The role of reflexivity in the context of adults’ self-creation process

Subject and Keywords:

late modernity   reflexivity   self-creation

Abstract:

Reflexivity grew particularly significant in late modernity, as a characteristic of culture on the one hand, and a factor important for the man’s development, on the other. The aim of this work is to analyze the idea of reflexivity as one of central categories which describe changes in late modernity, and, next, to outline its function in the process of adults’ self-creation. Reflexivity is a relatively new idea, embracing two primary dimensions: cognitive and self-referent. It is a characteristic feature of late modernity that the two dimensions interpenetrate each other, and that numerous ways of understanding reflexivity are accepted. Reflexivity is becoming an inalienable competence of an adult individual in late modernity, one that launches the process of his self-creation. On the one hand, reflexivity is connected with undertaking critical reflection over one’s life and its circumstances. On the other hand, it is a feature of social structures or creations of culture which, by evoking a responsive reorganization of an individual’s life, enforce his reaction, reflection, or sometimes even a conscious life change.

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

Instytut Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Date issued:

2017

Format:

application/pdf

Identifier:

ISBN 978-83-62618-31-6

DOI:

10.34616/22.19.213

Language:

pol

Relation:

Codzienność jako wyzwanie edukacyjne, T. 2, s. 47-61

Rights holder:

Copyright by Anna Sladek

Location of original object:

Biblioteka Instytutu Pedagogiki UWr

Autor opisu:

h.w.