ISSUES OF SELF-IDENTIFICATION AND CIVIC AWARENESS OF STUDENTS: MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/2520-2626/2026.38.10
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Abstract. The article examines the modern challenges of Ukrainian society – both those that are a legacy of the colonial era, the totalitarian regime and the Bolshevik-Soviet ideology, and those that arise in result of hostile information inputs during the current war of the russian federation against Ukraine – and the museum experience responsing to them. In particular, educational, exhibition and other communicative practices in the field of establishing national identity, civic consciousness and legal culture of youth as factors of consolidation of Ukrainian society are considered. A rather interesting point of this article may be the analysis of the interaction of professional identity with national, civic, political&state identity and the influence on it of the legal culture of children and youth. Examples of exhibition and other communicative practices given in the article are taken from the curatorial activities of the author of the article at the B. Paton State Polytechnic Museum for 2024-2026.
The conclusion may be as follows: although the current practice of the State Museum of History includes exhibitions with a national and civic focus, featuring a varied programme of audience engagement alongside the main exhibition, as well as themed events and relevant highlights during guided tours and discussions, this does not fully address the need to develop legal and civic cultures, as well as national and state consciousness, among schoolchildren and students. It is therefore necessary to continue seeking new forms of engagement (in particular, encouraging student volunteering and their participation in extracurricular civic-oriented activities), whilst transforming earlier initiatives into systematically repeated interventions.
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