Radicalization and transformation in everyday life: educating the radical thinking

The pandemic has generated and increased many events of radicalization based on fake news, hate speech, new forms of populism. These phenomena have been discussed often only in the public arena and in the mass media channels as understandable points of view, in opposition to the scientific perspectives and data. For many communities or movements, the reaction has been to sustain and develop radicalized forms of thinking about the idea of freedom, the idea of democratic society and the role of the law. This paper aims to expand the idea of radicalization processes within the tradition of adult education theories.