Teenage Kicks: Exploring cultural value from a youth perspective

人们越来越关注的是，许多年轻人越来越多地被排除在艺术和文化活动之外，因为这些学科在学校中被边缘化，缺乏艺术资金影响了艺术的普及。这项研究询问了一群不同的年轻人，他们重视的文化体验，以及他们觉得他们通过这些接触获得了什么，以便为艺术在年轻人的生活中恢复建立一个强有力的论据。在当代对文化价值的描述中，年轻人的声音和描述基本上已经消失了。在现有的情况下，这些研究往往局限于分析青年人在较正规的文化机构和学校中与文化和“创造力”的接触，或者局限于就数字文化空间的影响进行辩论。该项目与年轻人和一个文化组织网络合作，探讨年轻人的经验和对文化价值的分析，以便为当代关于文化价值的讨论提供信息。建立在最近的世代和数字文化分析青年文化，以及长期的理论“青年文化”在社会学，文化研究和文化地理学的研究将详细探讨年轻人的文化经验，无论是日常和非正式的文化经验和他们的经验，更正式的文化机构。我们相信年轻人的声音可以以新的和令人耳目一新的方式切入关于文化价值的辩论。这项研究将在《亨利文化教育评论》的更广泛政策背景下进行，并将为围绕艺术和文化在“全面发展”年轻人中的价值的政策和研究辩论提供信息。参与该项目的文化组织以及国内和国际上的其他文化组织将更好地了解青年人文化经历的多样性及其应对措施，这将为青年人艺术和文化提供政策和做法的变化提供信息。我们的目标是为那些致力于确保所有儿童和年轻人在这种困难的经济气候下有意义地接触艺术和文化的人提供更多证据。

There are growing concerns that many young people are increasingly being excluded from the arts and cultural activity as these subjects are being sidelined in schools and lack of funding for the arts is affecting their reach. This study asks a diverse group of young people about the kind of cultural experiences they value and what they feel that they gain through these encounters in order to build a robust argument for the arts to be reinstated in the lives of young people. In contemporary accounts of cultural value young people's voices and accounts have largely dropped off the radar. Where they remain, they have tended to be restricted to analyses of young people's encounters with culture and 'creativity' in more formal cultural institutions and in schools or to debates on the implications of digital cultural spaces. Accounts have often been dominated by instrumental tales of potential future economic benefit and skills development.This project works collaboratively with young people and a network of cultural organisations to explore young people's experiences and analyses of cultural value in order to inform contemporary discussion of cultural value. Building on recent generational and digital culture analyses of youth culture, as well as longstanding theorisations of 'youth cultures' in sociology, cultural studies and cultural geography the study will explore in detail young people's experiences of culture in relation to both the everyday and informal cultural experiences and their experiences of more formal cultural institutions. We believe that young people's voices may cut into the debate about cultural value in new and refreshing ways.The study will be conducted in the wider policy context of the Henley Review of Cultural Education and will feed into policy and research debates around the value of the arts and culture in the development of 'well-rounded' young people. Cultural organisations involved in the project and others nationwide and internationally will gain a better understanding of the diversity of young people's cultural experiences and their responses to it. This will inform changes in policy and practice in relation to arts and cultural provision for young people. Our aim is to increase the evidence available for those working to ensure that all children and young people have meaningful access to the arts and culture in this difficult economic climate.