Paradigma izobraževanja za dobrobit posameznika in skupnosti

The article aims to show that the main strength of community education lies in the fact that it enables people to take care of their interests and requirements in the most relevant manner. By community education we mean all educational activities in support of the work of organizations, groups and individuals in a particular local community. Having realized its significance, governments set general rules and regulations, but left their implementation to individual regions, districts and communes. Through community education people will transform from passive into active, autonomous individuals, who wish to take an active part in the care for themselves and the community in which they live. This type of education, with an important social function, is thus directed towards common work for development and higher quality of life in the community. It deals with social learning in the process of solving individual and collective problems and with social responsibility in the contemporary society.S člankom želiva pokazati glavno moč skupnostnega izobraževanja, to je, da lahko ljudje v skupnosti kar najbolj relevantno poskrbijo za svoje interese in potrebe. Skupnostno izobraževanje opredeljujeva kot vse izobraževalne dejavnosti, ki podpirajo delovanje organizacij, skupin in posameznikov v neki lokalni skupnosti. Pomen tega izobraževanja so spoznale vlade, ki sicer postavljajo splošna pravila in zakone, uresničevanje teh pa prepuščajo regijam ali lokalnim skupnostim. Skupnostno izobraževanje je način, kako se človek iz pasivnega prelevi v aktivnega, avtonomnega posameznika, ki želi dejavno skrbeti zase in skupnost, v kateri živi. Ta vrsta izobraževanja, ki ima tudi pomembno družbeno funkcijo, je torej usmerjena v skupno delovanje za razvoj in boljšo kakovost življenja v skupnosti. Gre za socialno učenje pri reševanju individualnih in kolektivnih problemov in socialno odgovornost odraslih v sodobnih razmerah