Mobility Turn in Contemporary Society as an Educational Challenge

• Main Author: Denys Svyrydenko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Society of Philosophy and Cosmology 2016-07-01
• Series: Future Human Image
• Subjects: mobility; mobility turn; academic mobility; nomad; higher education; contemporary society
• Online Access: http://www.fhijournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/3-6-2016-10-Svyrydenko.pdf

The main idea of the research is to uncover the series of challenges produced by the social dynamics with one’s mobile nature. Using methodological potential of social philosophy author attempts to demonstrate the essence and logics of mobility turn as a metaphor of contemporary society development. Author shows the radical changes at social-cultural dynamics which are also concieved by the modern social sciences (sociology of mobilities, series of postmodern concepts such as nomad etc). Using methodological approaches of philosophy of education author formulates “order of the day” of the mobility challenges at higher education sphere. Author shows that educational sphere also becomes mobile transforming the character of one’s vital activity, but also actualizing some special phenomena such as academic mobility. Formulating “order of the day” of mobility challenges to modern higher education, author demonstrates the horizon of future researches due to complex nature of researched problem