Cultural Facilities

The forty years of local cultural politics in democracy are analyzed from the analysis of cultural facilities. In their diversity, the equipment is framed in a South-European cultural policy that constrains the progress and efficiency of the equipment. The impact of other cultural policy orientations and the effects of the creative city paradigm are considered to reach the conclusion of the need to make political decisions that address the permanent paralysis of cultural facilities.

Se analizan los cuarenta años de la política cultural local en democracia desde el análisis de los equipamientos culturales. En su diversidad, los equipamientos se enmarcan en una política cultural sud-europea que constriñe el progreso y la eficiencia de los equipamientos. Se considera el impacto de otras orientaciones de política cultural y los efectos del paradigma de la ciudad creativa para llegar a la conclusión de la necesidad de tomar decisiones po-líticas que hagan frente a la parálisis permanente de los equipamientos culturales.
PALABRAS CLAVE Política cultural local, equipamientos, gobernanza, paradigma de la ciudad creativa.

En el marco de la actual reducción de los presupuestos públicos dedicados a cultura, ha surgido el debate en torno a la necesidad de aumentar la sostenibilidad de los equipamientos culturales. No obstante, los autores plantean que ello requiere una modernización del modelo de gestión de los equipamientos culturales: la agencialización, la contractualización de las relaciones entre las administraciones públicas y los equipamientos culturales y la evaluación de sus resultados e impactos. A partir del análisis de dos países pioneros en este proceso, Inglaterra y Francia, el artículo se centra en el análisis comparativo de los procesos de modernización de la gestión de los equipamientos culturales en la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid y la de Cataluña. La conclusión es que las diferencias entre estas dos comunidades se deben a las diferencias del contexto político-administrativo, esto es, al modelo de gestión de las políticas culturales. Asimismo, en ambos casos, el reto de modernización de la gestión de los equipamientos culturales no solo debe implicar cambios de gestión económica, sino un cambio en la tutela y en la misión, que debe orientarse hacia la creación de valor público.

In the context of the current reduction of public budgets devoted to culture, the debate has emerged around the need to increase the sustainability of cultural facilities. However, the authors argue that this requires a modernization of public management model of culture, similar to that being developed in other areas of go-vernance: the agencification and performance contracting between the public and cultural facilities. From the analysis of two countries in this process, England and France, the article focuses on the comparative analysis of the modernization of the management of cultural facilities in the Autonomous Community of Madrid and the Catalonia. The conclusion is that the differences between these two communities are due to differences in political-administrative and management model of cultural policy. And in both cases, the challenge of modernizing the public administration of culture should not only involve changes in economic management but a change of custody and the mission of these facilities, more oriented to the creation of public value.

Taiwanese youth’s English ability has been a critical issue in educational field since English had been adapt as a subject in elementary schools in 1997. The study integrates the network of young volunteers, cultural facilities resources, and develops an EFL contexts reading service program. Research presents in detail for 6 youngsters’ social involvement and learning experiences by qualitative research method. The study aims to explore how young people get more involved in independent learning, interactive abilities and cross-cultural communication by reaching out in cultural facilities to read English picture books for children.

Objective: In this study, a bank loan allocation is examined in-depth with one of the methods derived from emancipatory operational research, and by conducting in-depth interviews with experts in this field, identifies the views and contradictions between them. Methods: In order to deeply review with a critical approach, this process of perceiving and reflecting the (hidden) views of stakeholders using 12 border questions in the form of 2 "Is" states in terms of facts and what is now and "ought to be" state. It explores the concept of values and what should ideally exist. Results: According to the findings, the banking decision-makers' approach should be turning to create shared value, changes in the obsolete banking statute seem necessary, and the central bank system should be working independently. Furthermore, unconventional powers of government and governance have caused injustice in the allocation of loans, and despite the existence of multiple grievance systems, the response to the complaints is too slow. Besides, some subsystems also have significant weaknesses: credit rating, management evaluation system, the authority of provincial and regional managers, the customer evaluation system, the allocation of credit, and scientific and technological support teams. Conclusion: This study's results provide suggestions arising from the exploration and understanding of stakeholder boundary judgments (initial judgments about the system and an overview of it) to redesign and implement critical changes in Iran's bank loan allocation system.