Toward a Critical Children’s Museology: The Anything Goes Exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw

For decades, Museum Studies scholars have called for a new ‘critical museology’ with greater inclusion of marginalized communities and diversification of exhibition content, but children have been largely ignored in these efforts. This paper explores the possibilities for what I call a new ‘Critical Children’s Museology’ through in-depth analysis of the Anything Goes exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. Curated by 69 children, this ground-breaking exhibition radically broke from current and traditional museological practice by offering prominent institutional space and professional support for children’s cultural production in the form of curated exhibition galleries and programming. I analyze the exhibition, its production process, and its strengths and limitations to consider the possibilities and challenges of bringing child-centred praxis into museology. This work contributes to the larger charge of democratizing museum and curatorial practice by upending the patronizing view of children as passive recipients of museum offerings, focusing instead on their capacities for cultural production, critical interpretation, and curatorial innovation.

Kielitaitojen kirjo käyttöön, limittäiskieleilyä luokkaan

This paper focuses on pedagogical practices that enhance language awareness and encourage the use of the pupils’ diverse linguistic repertoires in the classroom. The paper is based on the sociolinguistically informed action research project Itä-Helsingin uudet Suomen kielet. The data for this paper come from video recordings of the projects’ workshops as well as interviews with the teachers. I describe the ways in which the pupils take the role of language experts in the project workshops and analyze how the project changed the pedagogical thinking and practices of the teachers. The analysis shows that transforming the monolingual institutional space into a translanguaging space is possible with language awareness and translanguaging pedagogy. In the translanguaging space, registers from different contexts encounter in shared practices, which allows learning beyond the borders of languages. Action research proves to be a fruitful way for implementing research knowledge and ideas in practice.

Implementing the SDGs in local contexts: overcoming methodological boundaries

The research suggests how the full potential of the enterprises and organizations of the Social and Solidarity Economy in promoting sustainable development may be better understood by representing cultural, social, economic, and environmental issues within an integrated analytical framework. On these premises, an extended version of Coraggio’s scheme (2015) is obtained by adding a fourth sector of economic activity, namely the global economy, as opposed to the popular economy. Looking at Coraggio’s integrated scheme, an additional institutional space related to the social and solidarity economy emerges, representing the field of digital solidarity and cooperation. Then, the research helps to clarify what a local context is and how it relates to the notion of place. Finally, the notion of place is contrasted with the notion of system, as the attractiveness of the former depends on its distinctive features, while the latter emphasizes the instrumental value of its elements.

Peripheral recovery: ‘Keeping safe’ and ‘keep progressing’ as contradictory modes of ordering in a forensic psychiatric unit

Sitting between the psychiatric and criminal justice systems, and yet fully located in neither, forensic psychiatric units are complex spaces. Both a therapeutic landscape and a carceral space, forensic services must try to balance the demands of therapy and security, or recovery and risk, within the confines of a strictly controlled institutional space. This article draws on qualitative material collected in a large forensic psychiatric unit in the UK, comprising 20 staff interviews and 20 photo production interviews with patients. We use John Law’s ‘modes of ordering’ to explore how the materials, relations and spaces are mobilised in everyday processes of living and working on the unit. We identify two ‘modes of ordering’: ‘keeping safe’, which we argue tends towards empty, stultified and static spaces; and ‘keep progressing’ which instead requires filling, enriching and ingraining spaces. We discuss ways in which tensions between these modes of ordering are resolved in the unit, noting a spatial hierarchy which prioritises ‘keeping safe’, thus limiting the institutional capacity for engendering progress and change. The empirical material is discussed in relation to the institutional and carceral geography literatures with a particular focus on mobilities.

Formation of the Ecosystem of the Digital Economy of the Russian Federation: Institutional Aspect

Based on the methodology of evolutionary economics and economic genetics in the development of foreign and Russian theoretical approaches to the study of the essence and content of ecosystems in modern economic science and their identification in economic practice, the article substantiates the objective necessity and significance of creating an institutional ecosystem of digital economy that is relevant to the priorities of the neo-industrialization of Russia as a part of the transition to the 6th technological mode. It is substantiated that the institutional ecosystem is an integral and obligatory component of the socio-economic ecosystem of digital economy. Main components of the institutional ecosystem of the digital economy of the Russian Federation are highlighted in the logical accordance with its structural elements (institutions, organizations and institutes that contribute to ensuring effective economic activity in the digital environment). The institutional barriers that impede technological modernization and digital transformation of modern Russian economy (non-systematic formation of the institutional environment of digital economy, discreteness of its institutional space in territorial, administrative and demographic aspects; underestimation of the role of the state institutions and state control mechanisms for the implementation of the digital scenario of economic development, etc. were identified. The author proposes the system of measures to overcome them, including: increasing the level of homogeneity and continuity of the institutional space of digital economy to ensure uniform “rules of the game” for participants in digital economic interactions; systematic formation of the institutional matrix, reflecting the structure of relations between the main institutional actors (government, business, consumers); activation of informal institutions of digital economy based on increasing the digital culture of entrepreneurs and citizens, developing their competencies in the digital consumption field, ensuring information security; overcoming institutional traps that reproduce opportunistic behavior in the digital environment and reduce the transactional effects of using digital technologies in the economic turnover.

A Licenciatura em Educação do Campo no estado de Goiás: olhares dos egressos sobre os múltiplos aprendizados na formação do educador do campo na UFG e UFCat

The study proposed here focuses on the discussion of Rural Education, as well as the theoretical and pedagogical principles that guided the Licentiate Degree in Rural Education courses in the state of Goiás during their implementation. The objective of this work is to present the views of the graduates of the course on the process of their formation and the appropriation of academic and political concepts of Rural Education within the two courses. To achieve the research objectives, theoretical research and documentary research were used and field research. From the application of a questionnaire with open and closed questions that brought elements about the students' perception about their training process in the course and the consequences in their professional performance. The subjectivity of the graduates' views leads us to reflect on the importance of the Licentiate Degree in Rural Education course beyond the university, in view of the advances and setbacks that limit us in the institutional space of Rural Education. Anyway, there is a consensus that training at both universities was able to promote training based on awareness of the role of these students in their communities, being agents of change in their communities.

VENTURE CAPITAL IN RUSSIA AND THE PROSPECTS OF ITS DEVELOPMENT

В статье рассмотрены основные аспекты венчурной деятельности в российской экономической системе. Сделан вывод о необходимости совершенствования институционального пространства развития венчурного рынка, что даст толчок к инновационному развитию экономики в целом. The article discusses the main aspects of venture capital activities in the Russian economic system. It is concluded that it is necessary to improve the institutional space for the development of the venture capital market, which will give an impetus to the innovative development of the economy as a whole.