ADULT EDUCATION IN CULTURAL POLICY AT THE LOCAL LEVEL
ADULT EDUCATION IN CULTURAL POLICY AT THE LOCAL LEVEL

Author(s): Beata Cyboran
Subject(s): Pedagogy
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: adult education; cultural education; cultural policy
Summary/Abstract: The popularisation of lifelong learning and the growing importance of cultural education has prompted numerous Polish cities to prepare programmes for developing cultural education. Among the first comprehensive solutions was initiated in Warsaw in 2015, and other cities are now following this path: Łódź, Gdańsk, Kraków and Poznań. The main objectives of programmes that have been adopted or prepared are to develop creative, conscious and active participation in culture and to increase people’s cultural competences toward full participation in the local community. Everyone benefits from the main strategic goals of the documents under consideration. Unfortunately, adult education is much less represented than education of children and young people in the operationalisation of these main goals and in selecting intervention methods,. Democratic aims in culture could be more strongly represented in local cultural-education programmes, as this is an excellent educational space for adults, for it is based on comprehensive, continuous development of all residents. Hence the present author’s interest in local cultural policies, where I seek evidence of this valuable concept.

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