Adults in the spaces of life. Balancing personal commitments and social role challenges

This paper highlights the interconnected interpretations of adult learning, assuming that the scope of the deliberations encompasses broadly understood adult developmental activity. Individuals who engage in such activity, while seeking self-realisation on one hand, strive to meet specific commitments, primarily in the personal sphere. On the other hand, they face the challenge of adopting various social roles. The performance and actualisation of these roles are only possible in public spaces and often require demonstrating new, or at least different, educational activity than that previously practised