Cultural Literacies in Transition

Abstract

The topic of this special issue is Cultural Literacies in Transition. Contemporary societal transitions raise a number of important questions about what can or should currently be considered as relevant or valuable knowledge about culture and the arts, about what is currently considered to be the societal and educational value of knowledge about and engagement with culture and the arts, both in policy as well as in the public debate, and about the ways cultural institutions address their changing and increasingly even contested roles as mediator and go-between of such literacies. This introduction sets the scene for the special issue and introduces the different contributions.