Cultural and Regional Education as an Instrument of Upholding Tradition and the Notion of Rooting in a Global Reality Cover Image

Edukacja kulturalna i regionalna instrumentem podtrzymującym tradycję i poczucie ukorzenienia w globalnej rzeczywistości
Cultural and Regional Education as an Instrument of Upholding Tradition and the Notion of Rooting in a Global Reality

Author(s): Irena Kotowicz-Borowy
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: regional education; cultural education; tradition; cultural heritage; identity

Summary/Abstract: Unstable currently communication between generations, migrations and life globalization makes that determining of own identity becomes more difficult.Simultaneously commercialization of cultural heritage along with the development of merket economy may result in a threat to existence of native or regional culture. All the more, regional and cultural education, gaining greater importance, playing the essential role in the „small homelands”, as in the educational environment.Their aim is to restore post-memory, promotion of cultural heritage and using of cultural resources of local communities for the promotion and development of social capital in the region.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 109-117
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish