The role of education and museums in the social inclusion. A contribution from animation sociocultural

Abstract

In this article, the authors tend to think about the relevance of museums as agents for social inclusion and community development, beyond their traditional role as reproducers of the existing cultural order. In this sense, we make a distinction between the democratization of culture as distribution and access to cultural assets of a community on the one hand, and cultural democracy, understood as cultural creation and social participation for building single and collective identity on the other hand. For getting the second option, we consider the socio-cultural animation as a powerful educative resource. From this perspective, socio-cultural animation can open the museums towards the community, as well as allowing to experiencing our culture, in an active, dynamic and integrative way. This is due to the fact that it is an educative instrument embedded in a social movement of resistance to the market economy, as opposed to the indifference and passivity, against exclusion, segregation and media glare of a subculture. This aspect is seen under the parameters and skills of intercultural education.