Infomal Catholic adult education properties in contemporary world

Sparčiai besikeičiančiame pasaulyje neformalusis suaugusiųjų švietimas įgyja vis didesnę reikšmę. Neformalusis švietimas suteikia galimybę asmeniui ugdyti kūrybinius gebėjimus, įgyti profesinei veiklai reikalingų žinių ir tapti aktyviu demokratinės visuomenės piliečiu. XX a. pab. Katalikų bažnyčia išleido katechetinius dokumentus, kuriuose pabrėžiamas dėmesys suaugusiųjų švietimui, padedančiam suaugusiesiems pažinti save, analizuoti visuomenėje vykstančius reiškinius ir prisideda prie pilietiškumo ugdymo. Straipsnyje analizuojami neformaliojo katalikiškojo suaugusiųjų švietimo ypatumaiIn our contemporary society a lot of traditional values like family, freedom lose their importance. People are often intolerant each other because of their religious or nationality. With the weakening of social relations people feel unsafe for their future, they trying to find meaning of live, but alone often they can not do this. These problems can help to solve informal adult catholic education, which are very important because helps people to know themselves, analyzes various phenomena in society and contributes to citizenship promoting. There is much information about children catholic education, however, adult education is little researched in the literature. The aim of research is identify the importance of informal adult catholic education. Objectives of research: To reveal the importance of informal adult education. To explain catholic education value for human and society. To dispute informal catholic adult education programs. To define and empirically verified informal catholic adult education features, motives and interferences. Methods of research: the analysis of scientific literature and other sources, empirical research – questionnaire survey. After the analysis of literature and different sources it is based that informal education can solve different problems. Informal education can be divided into informal vocational education, which helps to adapt to a constantly changing labour market and non-vocational training, which helps to develop socio-cultural competences. It was explained that the informal catholic adult education is valuable, because it promotes citizenship, community, tolerance and ability to live in a diverse society. There are many adult catholic education programs, some of them help reduce social exclusion, help people, who are in critical situation, other programs help improve social skills, know themselves.[...]Edukologijos tyrimų institutasSocialinių mokslų fakultetasVytauto Didžiojo universiteta