This article focuses on spatial and territorial distribution of innovative production facilities and modern technologically advanced processes as one of the reindustrialization issues. Traditionally, large cities have created more favourable environment for re-industrialization due to their material and socio-cultural components. The results of the survey, conducted by the authors in Sverdlovskaya Oblast, show that small and medium-sized towns potentially possess social and cultural prerequisites for re-industrialization: young adults from these settlements demonstrate positive attitudes and potential comparable with those of the youth living in large cities. It was revealed that in small and medium-sized towns the youth value knowledge as an important resource for doing business, and highly self-assess such qualities as leadership and entrepreneurship. However, young adults evaluate conditions for doing business in small and medium-sized towns as less favourable. In the future the youth intend to get engaged in trading, service and tourism activities. Only young adults from Ekaterinburg consider manufacturing as a perspective field of their activities. The authors conclude that in terms of spatial and territorial distribution, small and medium-sized towns possess the required labour potential capacity to implement the concept of re-industrialization. It is essential to assist the youth in small and medium-sized towns in acquiring the in-demand skills as well as promote a comprehensive policy aimed at developing sociocultural environment in the settlements. These measures will not only contribute to meeting the challenge of re-industrialization, but also will preserve small settlements, that are rapidly losing grounds for their economic development.
This article looks into the legal and psychological aspects of child and youth participation in discussions and decision making on issues relating to their lives and gives an overview of the current trends in participatory development.Participatory design is interpreted within this study as activities that result in participatory action of children in the educational process. Participatory action is characterized in its intentional component and its persistence (reflected in searching for ways of bringing the intention to life) by initiative, consciousness, autonomy and responsibility. Participatory design is regarded as a tool for creating conditions to develop adolescents' subject position.A new method of engaging children in participatory design of learning environments is offered and implemented in the study. The article describes successively the steps of method implementation and its testing within the framework of Pedagogical Design Studio's activities.adolescence, children's participation in decision making, cooperation, cultural-historical psychology, development, participatory approach in education, participatory design, subject position.
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