“…The aim of arts education in several countries, for instance Germany (Steigerwald, 2019), the Netherlands (Meerkerk & IJdens, 2018) and Norway (Rasmussen, 2017), generally is the democratization of culture, in other words: to give all children access to established cultural experiences, regardless of their social backgrounds, through arts education. It does so, however, without acknowledging the cultural backgrounds of the children.…”