Towards an arts education for cultural citizenship

Abstract

This chapter considers the notion of culture and how arts education might relate to it, and addresses the question of cultural rights, and arts education as a right. It examines cultural citizenship, and the implications for arts education. Culture is more than just the arts, but the arts are integral to it. They offer a wide range of media, platforms, genre, heritages and practices for the processes of making meanings. The arts are concerned with the social and semiotic; arts education both produces and reproduces cultures. Following Gaztambide-Fernandez’s argument about arts as cultural production leads to the argument that arts education contributes to cultural rights in two ways—as everyday cultural production, and as a long-term contribution to out-of-school life. The right to participate in arts based social meaning-making is integral to citizenship; thus the equitable provision of arts education is vital for all young people regardless of who or where they are.

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