The Challenges of Adult Education in the Modern World

In the modern world humans need to be able to deal with uncertainty and to give up what is not functional. Thus, informational learning, which is meant as the acquisition of new information by addition, hardly answers this challenge. The learners need to not only acquire new knowledge, but they also need to assess and change their assumptions regarding an issue at hand, at this point transformative learning occurs.One of the methods through which transformative learning could be unearthed is the contact with art (aesthetic experience) which offers a variety of meanings and symbols that may allow the learners to articulate delicate meanings on a certain issue which may not be easily approached through rational argumentation.