CULTURAL LEARNING IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD
CULTURAL LEARNING IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD

Summary/Abstract: The conditions under which cultural education and cultural policy action take place are decisively shaped by the processes of globalization with a new multi-ethnic composition of the population as an intra-societal counterpart to the internationalization of production and reception of culture. Both factors create new cultural patterns and identities. Key among all the educational challenges is the creation of a “high-skilled citizen with the ability to access, adapt, apply, and create new knowledge and technologies” as OECD stated in 1996. Education and live-long-learning systems thus play a major role in improving development and competitiveness of a country or a region. The purpose of this paper is to give an introduction to the effects of globalization on cultural education for young people and to describe processes that address the numerous challenges to national or regional institutions in the field of cultural learning brought on by globalization. In my opinion one of the key factors to prepare individuals to cope with the new demands is to enhance cultural education understood as civics education at school. Offering cultural learning opportunities to educate this so-called “high-skilled citizen” committed to social and human transformation seems only to be possible by the implementation of a much more comprehensive and much more systematic institutionalized cultural education on all levels of the educational chain.

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