Culture and education in the contemporary society

• Autor(a) principal: Carrara, Ana Regina
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Carvalho, Maria do Carmo Brant de, Lima, Thais
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Cenpec
• Texto Completo: http://cadernos.cenpec.org.br/cadernos/index.php/cadernos/article/view/59
• topic: Educação; Ciências Sociais; Cultura; Educação; Cultura; Diversidade cultural; Desigualdades de acesso à cultura; Democratização da cultura; Education. Culture. Cultural diversity. Inequalities of acces to culture. Democratization of culture.

We live in a society marked by technological advances that permitted new dynamics in information flows and in the speed of their production, but simultaneously marked by social and economic unbalances that, added to other factors, have resulted in the creation of a specific form of inequality: the one that hierarchizes different cultures and/or limits the access to the existing cultural goods. This last aspect particularly calls our attention. Data from the Ministry of Culture demonstrate that people’s level of access to cultural goods is very low, disclosing an unawareness in relation to the artistic production existing in Brazil, even in a context in which the proliferation of information cannot be denied. In view of such data, this essay puts on the agenda the issue of education and culture in information society. We claim that, when one provides learning situations that take into consideration the cultural assets, possibilities are created for contact with distinct ways of relating with the world, benefitting from the valuation of the existing cultural diversity and expanding the access to the cultural manifestations and practices, learning the construction of which signals the fight to the inequality of access to culture, as well as its hierarchization.