This open access book discusses how cultural literacy can be taught and learned through
creative practices. It approaches cultural literacy as a dialogic social process based on
learning and gaining knowledge through emphatic tolerant and inclusive interaction. The book
focuses on meaning-making in children and young people's visual and multimodal artefacts
created by students aged 5-15 as an outcome of the Cultural Literacy Learning Programme
implemented in schools in Cyprus Germany Israel Lithuania Spain Portugal and the UK. The
lessons in the program address different social and cultural themes ranging from one's
cultural attachments to being part of a community and engaging more broadly in society. The
artefacts are explored through data-driven content analysis and self-reflexive and
collaborative interpretation and discussed through multimodality and a sociocultural approach
to children's visual expression. This interdisciplinary volume draws on cultural studies
communication studies art education and educational sciences.
