Contemporary youth in the face of unprecedented change of reality – social, cultural and pedagogical aspects

Abstract

The considerations included in the presented text encourage reflection on the condition of contemporary youth, which as a group oscillating between childhood and adulthood is the most susceptible to the influence of the surrounding reality. The entanglement into this changing reality and into the processes of globalization and the chaos of the postmodern values, makes the lives of young people extremely difficult and complicated. School and academic youth remain extremely influenced by increasingly changing reality, which leaves a negative impact on functioning in basic environment of human life and development. Young people are nowadays exposed to many unknown threats and dangers.