Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 29th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview Panel: Cultural Policy Co-creation and Smart Dev. (Physical) Author(s) Andrei Nicolae National School of Political Studies and Public Administration Bucharest Romania Title Art classes in high school: “to be or not to be?” – the Romanian answer File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Andrei Nicolae Abstract The importance of guarding the basic principals of human rights seems to be more and more emphasized by the atypical crises the world is facing over the last decade: hybrid wars, immigrational waves, economic instability and the even more recent health hazards. This is only an additional turmoil for the identity dilemmas nation states try to tackle nowadays while digitalizing on fast forward. With all this in mind and truly believing that the way youth looks and thinks today is a mirror of tomorrow’s society we conducted a research on public institutions of education and culture situated in the development region of Sud-Muntenia, Romania. This article presents the results of the on-line questionnaires applied at the beginning of this year to the managers of the local public institutions that have an essential role in conducting, implementing and supervising cultural and educational public policies in the seven component departments of the region. In addition to this there were also five high schools selected, with different education specifics, from different types of municipalities. In these cases, the targeted group was that of the students in their final year of upper secondary education. Their answers to the importance of art in education, their perspective on arts teaching and learning and their understanding of the role of other local public institutions are the subject of the study we propose in order to put a light on the necessity of education trough art for the future of humanity’s cultural heritage.
