Hacia una comunidad de la cultura: educación al Patrimonio Cultural Local

In recent years the meaning and value of cultural heritage have taken on a local dimension,
favoring the centrality of communities and the development of territories in relation to their
characteristics. This new perspective has been favored by the need to regenerate all those
cultural processes of local realities, putting the value of culture back at the center. The serious
imbalances and disharmonies that currently exist in the world highlight the need to start from
the cultural values of individual communities and to build transcultural relational processes capable
of giving priority to human, spiritual and educational values, all fundamental references
for building a sustainable world. Meanwhile, these complicated problems of the world highlight
the need to enhance the value of local cultural realities, communities, individuals with the aim
of pursuing greater balance and harmony.
All this requires a greater capacity for sharing, cooperation and creativity in order to achieve
lifestyles more compatible with the sustainable development that the whole world now requires.
This contribution aims to bring the reader closer to some issues aimed at enhancing
education in culture and one’s own heritage, fundamental resources for the development of
our personality and our life in dialogue with others.