Project

Current title: Political emancipation through language and cultural education. Critical pedagogical research into the rhetoric of cultural literacy mediated by cultural institutions and cultural policy at the Flemish, Belgian and European level.

Code

01CD0322

Duration

01 July 2022 → 30 April 2023

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Kris Rutten

Fellow

Hari Sacré

Research disciplines

Social sciences
- Cultural participation

Keywords

cultural literacy critical pedagogy political emancipation cultural institutions cultural policy anti-racism inclusion postcolonial thinking

Project description

This research conducts 3 integrated research tracks to investigate cultural literacy projects - issued at the Flemish, Belgian and European policy level: (1) conceptual study into cultural literacy; (2) a crosssectional analysis of the rhetoric of political emancipation in cultural policies; (3) field research inquiring
how cultural institutions (theatres, libraries, museums, …) translate emancipatory cultural knowledge, defined at distinct policy levels, into transformative and sustainable cultural practices.