Université François-Rabelais, Tours, France (Photo: M. Alhadeff-Jones, 2017)

On December 11, 2017, I was invited by my colleagues Hervé Breton, Sebastien Pesce and Noël Denoyel from the Département des sciences de l'éducation et de la formation of the University of Tours, to present some of my reflections on the rhythms of adult education in the framework of the Transversal Seminar they organize with their Master 2 students (SIFA and IFAC) (training design, adult education and coaching).

During this presentation, I take up some of the theses that I had the opportunity to present at Columbia University last summer (Second Annual Jack Mezirow Lecture). I propose to explore the complexity of the relationship between time, adult education and self-development (autoformation) based on four axes of questioning: (1) How to define time in education? (2) How can we consider the relationship between time and the educational praxis? (3) How to conceive the temporalities of self-development and transformational processes? (4) How can adult education be conceived from a rhythmological perspective?