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UNESCO: Towards a New Cultural Policy Framework
Conceptual and Operational Guidelines to Integrate Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue Principles into Cultural Policy.Gerald Lidstone worked with colleagues from over 25 countries to develop and shape the new Cultural Policy framework for UNESCO as well of writing one of the 12 advisory documents , in this case a policy document on the education of cultural policy makers and cultural managers, using case studies from Asia Pacific.
The landscape of cultural policy has changed dramatically in the last two or three decades. In the 1960s and 1970s the concern of national-level cultural policy was overwhelmingly with the creative arts, including cultural heritage concerns -- how they contribute to a civilised society, how more people could be introduced to the benefits of arts consumption, and how the arts content of education systems and the media could be improved. Nowadays the understanding of what is meant by culture has been widened from a concentration primarily on the arts and humanities to embrace a sociological or anthropological interpretation of culture as ways of living together, lifestyles and value systems, and the role of cultural policy has correspondingly expanded. UNESCO 2009