The modern education system requires flexibility, plasticity, continuity and resistance to crises
and risks. This study examines the main features and requirements of the modern socio-cultural
situation. It identifies strategies and directions in contemporary education based on the ideas of
postmodernism. Using conceptual analysis of the influence of postmodern ideas on the education
systems of Russia and the United States it compares and contrasts the strategies and trends
identified. The results can serve as a basis for further research in the field of comparative pedagogy
and philosophy of education, in the context of the influence of postmodern ideas on education,
reflecting the ‘spirit of the time’.
Keyword(s) : information society
Self-development in Old Age versus the Challenges of the Information Society: The Polish-Bulgarian-Portuguese Perspective
The paper presents the result of a study to diagnose the level of interest of elderly people in the
study of digital skills, and attempts to answer the two questions of whether older people feel the
need for self-development in this area and how they find themselves in the information society. The
comparative study was carried out as part of the international project Erasmus+ Adult Education,
titled Silver Civic Education (2017-1-PL01-KA204-038695) implemented in the years 2017-2019. It
involved seniors from three partner countries of the project: Poland, Portugal and Bulgaria, which
made it possible both to determine general educational expectations of elderly people and to identify
specific issues for each country. Elderly people are a very heterogeneous group, they require educational
support in many areas, and especially in the area of new technologies. This can influence
maintaining or stimulating their curiosity and self-development, and therefore contribute to raising
their quality of life and enabling them to use life to the full.