Youths’ cultural leisure activity as a component of the leading foreign countries’ public policy

Abstract

The article shows the modern scientific approaches towards the grounds of cultural sector mechanism of its development in leading foreign countries. The main government principles and mechanisms of government part in participating to regulate the youths’ cultural policy are defined. The main tendencies and new instruments of the government policy development in youths’ cultural-leisure activity in highly developed countries are depicted. The necessity of applying the complex approach in realizing various forms of innovations in leisure sphere is grounded. Leisure is appreciated as a component of the youths’ cultural policy. The main topics of the leisure sphere are developed in the context of cultural politics of every country. The main tasks of the youths’ policy are the following: 1) to work out and adopt the statute, state and regional programmes, which are the preconditions of youths’ free growth; 2) to finance the programmes and events aimed at realization of these conditions; 3) to coordinate the government and public institutions and associations, private funds in solving the youths’ cultural leisure-time problems; 4) to encourage (including the grants) government and non-government organisations intended to give equal start-up chances for all categories of youths to achieve the recreational and spiritual potential of free time. In addition to that, separate aspects of leisure sphere (educational potential, pedagogical principles, sociology of leisure-time) are the object of different spheres of vital functions of the state. Every state determines its own cultural policy according to the values, tasks and its own cultural advances. The principles of the state policy in leisure-time sphere develop into the institutional mechanisms of the interaction between the state and society and then realize in the concrete cultural, social and leisure-time initiatives. The common principles and standpoints adopted and approved by the international community in the cultural sphere are: to work out the possibilities for a citizen to take part in cultural life of the society, cultural growth when the cultural policy becomes a component of general state policy; to preserve and popularize the cultural identity; to develop international cultural communications.