Playing bus in a bus – children transforming spaces within a mobile preschool into resources in place-making fantasy play

• The paper discusses the publications of the Royal Swedish Acad-emy of Sciences (RSAS) as part of a wider network of publicationexchange, linking learned societies, libraries, and archives. Theperiodicals of the RSAS went through several reorganisationsbetween 1813 and 1903, all to some extent related to their rolein publication exchange. Although subject to many of the samedeliberations of commercial value and institutional prestige asthe expanding book trade, publication exchange offered a meansof communication for institution s with widely differing financial,linguistic and scientific status, and a forum for articulating a widerange of values significant in scientific publication. In the contextof publication exchange, the roles of producers and consumers,and of publishers and repositories of scientific knowledge over-lap, and librarians emerge alongside editors as central actors inscientific communication. Scientific editorship should be viewednot only as a means of disseminating scientific findings to wideraudiences, but as designing a product that could be used to forgeinstitutional connections, to acquire publications, and to buildcollections. The case of the RSAS periodicals highlights theimportance of publication, not only for the distribution of scien-tific knowledge, but for its acquisition

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

Keyword

children

fantasy play

mobile preschool

interpretive reproduction

place

ethnography

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)