Philosophy-ing as a remedy to pop-cultural education crisis? Thoughts over Aldona Pobojewska’s suggestion of educating for self-dependence in the form of philosophy study workshops

Abstract

Pop culture, as an, at least aporetic phenomenon, in its modern, not earlier known, unheard-of display shows itself as a huge crisis and, at the same time challenge for traditionally-understood education, strongly existing in educational institutions and systems, which seems inadequate in the presence of modern requirements. The remedy for this problem Aldona Pobojewska sees in the humanities, more precisely – in philosophy. What really matters is philosophy-ing understood as a peculiar paradigm – educationally common, the standard model of which are workshops on philosophical thoughts. This text is a kind of critical attempt to investigate this suggestion in terms of modern, pop-cultural situation of education, for which is the suggestion both a diagnosis and a remedy.