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Education and Culture as Tasks of UNESCO: Current Challenges and Perspectives
Education and Culture as Tasks of UNESCO: Current Challenges and Perspectives

Author(s): Christoph Wulf
Contributor(s): Farasha Euker (Translator)
Subject(s): Education, Public Administration, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Wittenberg University - Sociology Department
Keywords: education; culture; UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage;UNESCO Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions; anthropology;

Summary/Abstract: As part of UNESCO, education is seen as a part of culture; at the same time, the educational and socializing effects of culture are brought to the fore. Unlike with other international organizations, UNESCO prioritizes the foundational effects of culture and the cultural character of education. Through this engagement, UNESCO’s conceptions of economics and culture differ from other organizations. Three basic publications are illustrative of this: the Faure report “Learning to Be” (1972), the Delors Report “Learning: the Treasure Within” (1996) and “Rethinking Education, Towards a Global Common Good? “(2015). The attempt to develop a human rights oriented framework is common to these studies.

  • Issue Year: 12/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-8
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English