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Future Shapers
How arts and culture shape society
06.01.21
Cultural education is education for the future. Cultural education opens up spaces for young people to perceive their environment anew, to raise their own questions, to seek answers artistically and playfully, to show their positions publicly. Young people, more than other generations before them, are taking the debate about the future into their own hands. They want to become shapers of the future and demand that adults do not take away their opportunities to do just that - to shape the future.
Cultural education offers are also important for those children and young people who are disadvantaged by the education system and the cultural sector, experience various forms of discrimination and have no voice. They show their perspectives on topics relevant to the future, such as diversity, democracy, digitality and sustainability. The breadth of cultural education enables diverse approaches to these future issues.
The practical guide offers suggestions for practitioners to reflect on their work with regard to the future topics of diversity, democracy, digitality and sustainability and to enrich it with professional impulses. Tools provide concrete methods for cultural education work that can be used with children and young people to deal with these future issues. Projects from Aachen, Berlin, Freiburg, Leipzig and Hamburg from the BKJ funding programme „Künste öffnen Welten“ within the federal programme „Kultur macht stark. Bündnisse für Bildung“ give an insight into their practice of youth cultural work.
The practical guide includes contributions by Kerstin Hübner on the contribution cultural education can make to a future fit for children and young people, by Prof. Dr. Sandra Hofhues on the discourse on the future with regard to digitality, by Ely-Almeida Rist on inclusive and discrimination-sensitive action strategies in work with young people, by Kirsten Witt on political and cultural education and by Amanda Steinborn on the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals in cultural education. Interviews with Susanne Bücken, Dr.in Helle Becker, Dr.in Verena Holz, Bernardo Sanchez Lapuente, Christoph Richter, Prof. Dr. Benjamin Jörissen as well as with four young people (Marie Borst, Nicolas Klasen, Olla Amoura and Fabian Müller) who report on topics that are most important to them, what they are committed to and what future they wish for can also be found in the work aid.
With more than 1,000 funded projects and around 25,000 children and young people involved since 2013, the „Künste öffnen Welten“ programme of the BKJ contributes to more educational and participatory justice. Since then, targeted projects have been funded that deal with questions of empowerment, self-organisation and participation. In 2020, the question of how these projects can also be implemented digitally came to the fore. The present practical guide builds on all these experiences from „Künste öffnen Welten“.
Full title | Future Shapers. How arts and culture shape society |
Editor/Publisher | Bundesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung (BKJ) |
Series | Practical guides |
Place | Berlin/Remscheid |
Year | 2020 |
Pages | 140 |
Price | For free |
Orginal edition | Bundesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung e. V. (2020): Zukunftsgestalter*innen. Mit Kunst und Kultur für die Gesellschaft aktiv. Arbeitshilfe. Berlin/Remscheid.
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