Enticed into reading – highlights from the 28th Adult Education Colloquium

At the Adult Education Colloquium, we focused on awareness-raising regarding the importance of reading as an anthropological practice that involves not only cognitive but also physical and emotional processes, is contextually conditioned and has evolved through history and technological development. In the first part of the colloquium, Dr Ana Vogrinčič Čepič, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and Marija Imperl from the Association for Sustainable Development and Personal Growth – Institute Treelogy, an experienced mentor of study circles, including the Reading with Manca Košir study circle, conducted a reading discussion. They highlighted various aspects of reading, which is highly personal and must be treated as such, especially when trying to engage someone in this activity. People practice different reading styles, which are not only related to what we read but are also inscribed in a specific time and place, representing any encounter of a concrete body with a concrete text carrier.

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