Turning

This article addresses education considered in the broadest sense of the word. The author provides an analysis of modern educational mechanisms in the context of curating practices. The article considers two large-scale art and research projects, the execution of which coincided with the heated discussion of the introduction of the Bologna system in Europe. Rogoff calls for the necessity of a "turn" that would considerably modify our idea of capacities of education. She sees the "academy" system as the model of "being-in-the-world" that would be a space for experiments and research, the principles of which should apply to all spheres of life. The main question the author raises concerns how the museum, the university, the art school can surpass their current functions. The key role within Rogoff's speculations belongs to the museum as one of the spaces where the educational "turn" can be executed. She underlines, however, that the discontent of society caused by the introduction of the Bologna system led to appearance of multiple self-organized forums beyond the institutions as well as of independent initiatives within them. Rogoff defines two terms to be used for consideration of the new conditions of education. These are " potentiality," the capacity to act that is not limited to an ability, and " actualization," which implies that certain meanings and possibilities that are embedded within objects, situations, persons, and spaces carry a potentiality to be "liberated." Therefore, education is considered as a platform able to recognize certain political convictions of the people involved therein and to provide a base for formation of a community.