Teaching
cultural cooperation in transcultural Europe
survey of training tools and methods
Milena
Dragicevic-Sesic for the Fondation Marcel Hicter ASBL,
Brussels
The research tries to identify the concepts and methods of
teaching cultural cooperation: how future practitioners are
prepared to work together, to co-produce or to mediate
(interpret) the "products" and values of one culture in
another cultural context. The effects of globalization and
new media impacts demand diversified and differentiated
knowledge and skills from cultural operators. At the same
time, cultural operators have to be aware of policy
measures as they are influential in creating the new forms
of cultural practices – especially European and
Mediterranean cross-border practices.
Efforts are being made in cultural management education, as
well as higher art education, to respond to new needs
and concepts, among which mobility and intercultural
dialogue are of crucial importance ( even for very
different career objectives).
The research will attempt to provide an "intellectual
topography" (Anderson) of the cultural
cooperation education field in
Europe, to assess academic and professional efforts to
create competence for operating on the world scene culture.
This cultural capital (knowledge and skills) is needed for
cooperation and co-production, but also for mediation, for
real intercultural dialogue.
It will
accentuate the differences in conceptual and training
approach: from teaching international cultural cooperation
to teaching cultural diplomacy; from basic and postgraduate
academic courses to courses within programs of life-long
learning, etc.
To analyze the ways and effectiveness of teaching cultural
cooperation in Europe today, we have to understand three
issues: what are the concepts behind ideas of cultural
cooperation, what are the main teaching methods and what
are the training tools?
How are cultural managers and other operators educated to
work in different cultural contexts; does the training
develop a capacity to understand and to make understandable
the cultural expressions of different cultures? Are the
traditional training formats and training tools adapted to
the needs of new professionals in cultural management and
cultural diplomacy? Do they really create the competence
and knowledge necessary for international cooperation
within Europe – through artistic dialogue,
representation and exhibition, but also through mediation
and communication?
Are the aims of cultural cooperation training programs
linked to the education of practitioners in the field of
cultural cooperation administration and management who are
innovative and open, not only pragmatic and skilful?
As the final outcome the following major question will be
examined: During training and within education, to what
extent are cultural operators receiving the analytical
skills and understanding abilities to help influence and
develop policy measures, and to what extent are they
prepared to use all the possibilities for their
international cultural cooperation programs.
Teaching international cultural
cooperation in Europe today - situation and
perspectives
Teaching Pack for cultural co-operation
Milena
Dragicevic-Sesic for the Fondation Marcel Hicter ASBL,
Brussels
The
Teaching Pack created in the framework of Vania is
available for trainers and course designers who wish to
develop training modules developing skills and competencies
to manage transnational cultural co-operation. This pack
contains the most relevant and used methods to teach
cultural cooperation in Europe
Teaching pack for cultural
cooperation
Innovative methodology and pedagogic tools: The European
Diploma in Cultural Project Management case study
Michel
Guérin for the Fondation Marcel Hicter ASBL,
Brussels
Michel
Guérin realised a systematisation of the innovative and
multi-faceted European Diploma methodology. This text is
available in French, an abstract exists in English in the
annex of the Vania's Final report
Méthodologies innovatrices et outils
pédagogiques : le Diplôme Européen en
Administration de Projets Culturels de la Fondation
Marcel Hicter, une étude de cas.