Published: 2025-12-23

To Meet the Other to (Co)exist – Towards the Reflexive Becoming in a Relation: the Theoretical and Research Perspective

Monika Adamska-Staroń
Seminare. Learned Investigations
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.1877

Abstract

This article contributes to a growing trend of reflection on the educational dimension of encounters with the Other as a space where personal stories intertwine with questions about choices, values, and existential orientation. It presents the theoretical framework for the topic, the research methodological foundations, the results, and the conclusions. The main goal of the described research was to explore and understand the meanings and significance attributed by pedagogy students at Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa to encounters with the Other in the context of their own development. In this study, I employed a hermeneutic method grounded in descriptive-interpretive text analysis. I used the students’ essays as a source of insight and understanding, which allowed me to recognise that encounters with the Other are seen as a formative experience – an impulse that triggers processes of self-discovery, self-shaping, and self-fulfilment, the source of which is (self)-reflection.

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encounter with the Other, philosophy of encounter and dialogue, academic education, co-existence, hermeneutics

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Adamska-Staroń, M. (2025). To Meet the Other to (Co)exist – Towards the Reflexive Becoming in a Relation: the Theoretical and Research Perspective. Seminare. Learned Investigations, 46(2). https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.1877

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