Arts and Cultural Education in a World of Diversity by Lígia Ferro & Ernst Wagner & Luísa Veloso & Teunis IJdens & João Teixeira Lopes

Author:Lígia Ferro & Ernst Wagner & Luísa Veloso & Teunis IJdens & João Teixeira Lopes
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030060077
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

2.6 Current Public Policy

In a 2015 report to Parliament, the Minister of Education, Culture and Science Jet Bussemaker (2015) stated that government culture public policy for the period 2017–2020 needed to better reflect the changed composition of the Dutch population. Institutional plans would therefore be tested against three criteria, (1) quality, (2) education and participation and (3) social value, with the aim of providing an accessible nationwide offering which would enable everyone in the Netherlands to enjoy a rich and varied cultural mix. The document had relatively little to say about cultural diversity, although Bussemaker did mention the challenges it poses and referred to a report by the Rotterdam Council for Arts and Culture (Rotterdamse Raad voor Kunst en Cultuur, RRKC) stating that many opportunities in this domain are not being taken advantage of. These include drawing on national funds for cultural development, cooperation with private sector partners in building creative industries and reaching young people more effectively by making use of their own knowledge and experience to develop activities that appeal to them. Bussemaker also noted that artists from a wide variety of different backgrounds are making a major contribution to cultural innovation in the Netherlands and are the nation’s link to the increasingly international arts scene (RRKC 2013).

In assessing grant and subsidy applications from institutions making up the basic culture infrastructure, the national Cultural Diversity Code (Code Culturele Diversiteit, CCD; http://​codeculturelediv​ersiteit.​com) has become an important yardstick. It aims to foster diversity in four areas: programme, public, personnel and partners. Although signing up to the CCD is voluntary, it is now a prerequisite to secure public funding. The code is founded on four principles.The cultural institution formulates a vision of cultural diversity in line with its own objectives.

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