Kulturbewusstsein und künstlerische Kompetenz. Europäische Schlüsselkompetenzen im Weißbuch der Wiener Volkshochschulen

Vienna’s adult education centres have developed a frame curriculum which focuses on the eight European key competences in continuing education with consideration of national and European educational strategies as well as the European Qualification Framework. The report focuses on the frame curriculum’s key elements and its contact points with the National Qualification Framework – taking the programme area of art and culture as an example. Cultural awareness and artistic competence as a key competence contains reception, production, reflection and mediation as central activity level. In contrast to the normative conception, sensual perception and expressiveness, fascination, curiosity, sensuality, imagination and fantasy become the centre of cultural as well as artistic awareness.Based on longer quotes, the report provides an insight to the concepts of knowledge and skills developed by the White Paper for Art and Culture. Subskills and descriptors are developed in a comprehensive chart.