This view has practical consequences as to the methodology and importance of fieldwork in close cooperation with the informants and performers in the spirit of dialogical anthropology. It also stresses the value of comprehensive or multiple collecting of data. The message of new folkloric forms, be they urban, regional, ethnic or almost purely individual, must be documented and decoded. The practical aims of the course The nature of training is planned to be global in the sense that both teachers and participants will be selected from institutions in all parts of the world. Its focus is thus not Finland but all cultures from which the participants come.
Special attention is paid to discussion of the problems of research presented by participants.
Presently intellectual exchange takes place mainly within the European-North American scholarly community and the role of scholars from the East and the developing countries has not gained the visibility it deserves. A debate which does not aim at western hegemony in the theoretical field but encourages the subdued voices to express themselves on priorities and possibilities is very much needed. The participants will be provided with technical aids which they can take to their working environment for further experimentation and application. The aim is to raise the level of professionality in everyday folklore work. The need to create systematic folklore work has been noticed in the Third World countries building their own cultural capital.