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Project

The rhetoric of cultural literacy

The aim of this research project is to study how cultural literacy (i.e. the importance of knowledge about culture and the arts) is rhetorically constructed within contemporary cultural policy and practice. The project addresses questions about (1) the specific content of cultural literacy, about (2) the potential functions of cultural literacy and about (3) the specific role of cultural institutions.

Date:1 Jan 2018 →  31 Dec 2021
Keywords:literacy, institutions, culture, Rhetoric, policy
Disciplines:Education, culture and society, Linguistics