Spol in njegov pomen v izobraževanju odraslih

This issue of Studies in Adult Education and Learning explores gender and its implications in adult learning and education from different world perspectives. For Hearn and Collinson (2017, p. 27) the notion of gender is a “very complex set of embodied, institutionalized structures, practices and processes” and one of the most fundamental and powerful structuring social principles, which is constructed within very diverse contexts. Women and femininities, and men and masculinities, are seen as socially constructed, produced and reproduced, variable and changing across time and space, within societies, and through the life course. The notion of gender is local and global in nature but on the local level femininities and masculinities have to be understood within the context of culture, ethics, religion, space and language.V tej številki revije Andragoška spoznanja se ukvarjamo z raziskovanjem spola in njegove vpletenosti v področje izobraževanja odraslih z različnih svetovnih perspektiv. Hearn in Collinson (2017, str. 27) povzemata spol kot »zelo kompleksno skupino utelešenih, institucionaliziranih struktur, praks in procesov« ter kot enega najbolj temeljnih in vplivnih družbenih principov, ki je ustvarjen znotraj zelo različnih kontekstov. Tako ženske in ženstvenosti kot moški in moškosti so videni kot družbeno zgrajeni, ustvarjeni in poustvarjeni, spremenljivi in spreminjajoči se v času in prostoru, znotraj različnih družb in življenjskih tokov. Pojmovanje spola je lokalno in globalno, vendar je na lokalni ravni ženskost in moškost treba razumeti znotraj konteksta kultur, etik, religij, prostora in jezika