Locus educandi: miasto jako przestrzeń nieformalnej edukacji międzykulturowej

Abstract

Anthropological and sociological reflections over the city often stress its importance as a dynamic creation, that shapes the identity of its dwellers, hence it is a place of upbringing – locus educandi. It is, therefore, not ideologically-free area, and can serve as a point of departure for the reflections within the framework of pedagogy or cross-cultural education. The city is a symbolic sphere, where, as a part of the everyday life interactions, the encounter with the Other takes place. Thus, such area can make individuals familiar with the latter. At the same time the city becomes a material foundation for intercultural education, upon which (cross-cultural) social capital can be built. Such way of understating the city points to its properties as a phenomenological experience, what, in turn, makes relations with the place psychological and semantic. This paper analyzes selected theories of the city as a social and anthropological area, revealing its pedagogical potential. The latter – as exemplified by Sarajevo – can be used in various educational projects in culturally diverse communities.