Adult education on the way towards sustainable development in the context of the challenges of the Anthropocene

Abstract

The article addresses current issues regarding anthropocentric changes that we all struggle with. The considerations set out here aim to show that adult education cannot remain indifferent to these challenges and threats. Education, by participating in shaping awareness, competences, but also new practices of everyday life, in which care for the natural and social environment will be their main attribute, bears co-responsibility for their dissemination. Climate and environmental changes
ultimately determine all other issues. The task of adult education is not only to raise awareness of
threatening factors, but also to provide positive behaviour models and shape a sense of responsibility for our common space, both physical and social. Adult education should reveal mutual connections, recognising the need for joint actions and common care for the environment, building interpersonal relationships not only in the immediate, neighbourhood perspective, but also in the national, international and even global dimension. Adult education can also significantly contribute to the implementation of the sustainable development agenda and all 17 goals contained in European treaties.