Participation in culture as a lifelong educational factor in the context of sustainable development

Abstract

Intercultural communication is a penetration of the confines of one’s own culture and entering the interface, which gives us some skills of making comparisons with other cultures. Sustainable cultural development means one’s involvement in the activities aimed at sustainable development of all cultural groups whose cultural heritage and traditions should be learnt and treated with due respect. In the text presented, I try to answer the following questions: what is cultural participation? How should the path towards participation in global culture pass? How to shape cultural norms above individual egoisms, taking into consideration the elements of lifelong education in the context of sustainable development challenges? I make an attempt at finding answers to the formulated problems by presenting some results of survey research regarding cultural activity, obtained from Cracow’s secondary school teachers.