The Cultural Dimension in Childhood

Abstract

This article emphasizes the fact that culture surrounds and influences the young people in child and youth care programs all the time, and that child and youth care workers must become cultural mediators for the “culturally undernourished” when assisting youth in care. This work must add to “psychological pedagogics” and “social pedagogics” a third new dimension, “cultural pedagogics.” Through raising and answering a series of six questions concerning culture, the author hopes to stimulate better practice and educational training in the cultural preparation of young people receiving child care services.