Education in Cultural Heritage as a Duty of Intergenerational Justice
Education in Cultural Heritage as a Duty of Intergenerational Justice

Author(s): Ileana Dascălu
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education
Published by: Trivent Publishing
Keywords: Cultural heritage; education; John Rawls; intergenerational justice; identity; memory, communitarianism.
Summary/Abstract: How should we educate future generations in order to safeguard and further transmit cultural heritage? If we accept the idea that we have duties of justice towards unborn individuals and that these are not limited to precautionary actions or to transferring sufficient resources, it is necessary to explore the question of transmitting values across generations. Since cultural heritage is deeply linked to values, memory, identity formation and legitimizing discourses, this paper develops an argument centring on education as a channel for the intergenerational transmission of cultural heritage.

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