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Learning, Teaching and Research
Making the links:
Bringing together Enterprise & Sustainability Education
Learning, Teaching and
Research
Results of HEA-funded workshop 20 Universities, 1 day
• Enterprise Education• Entrepreneurship Education
• Opportunities for collaboration• The student voice
Themes:
1) Language2) Skills & Attributes3) Flexible Pedagogies4) Joint Institutional Approaches:
partnership building5) Distinctions6) Ethics
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• QAA guidance September 2012:
• Enterprise is defined as ‘the application of creative ideas and innovations to practical situations’
• Enterprise Education ‘aims to produce graduates with the mindset and skills to come up with original ideas in response to identified needs and shortfalls, and the ability to act on them.’
Enterprise Education
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Entrepreneurship Education• Entrepreneurship is defined as ‘the application of
enterprise skills specifically to creating and growing organisations in order to identify and build on opportunities’
• Entrepreneurship Education ‘focuses on the development and application of an enterprising mindset and skills in the specific contexts of setting up a new venture, developing and growing an existing business, or designing an entrepreneurial organisation.’
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Other useful ideas• Intrapreneurship is defined as ‘the application of
entrepreneurial skills within an existing corporate or public sector organisation’
• Social Enterprise
• Education ‘about’/’for’/’through’ enterprise
• Awareness – Mindset – Capability
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Enterprise or Sustainability Education?Skills Development:
• Adaptive capacity• Taking the initiative• Intuitive decision-making• Making things happen• Networking• Innovating• Future thinking• Interdisciplinary skills• Personal ethical code
• Identifying opportunities• Creative problem-solving• Strategic thinking• Personal effectiveness• Holistic thinking• Resource management• Living with uncertainty• Handling risk
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Skills & Attributes
common ground in the skills and attributes both seek to develop, trying to develop a new kind of student
Bristol Student Green Fund
• future narratives• future thinking• Interdisciplinary engagement• critical thinking• social / collaborative thinkers• making a difference• creative solutions• innovation• empowerment, efficacy, self belief• experiential learning
• partnership
• ethical• interdisciplinarity• empathy• self efficacy• Adaptive capacity
evidence based thinking Ability to handle risk, uncertainty
and move beyond predictable• Ability to take adaptive action • Holistic /integrative thinking• Personal ethical code• Vision motivation and resourcefulness
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Flexible Pedagogies
Opportunity to match flexible pedagogies agenda set out in HEA Report: Flexible Pedagogies and New Pedagogic Ideas (2013) Tilbury and Ryan
• Learner empowerment• Future-facing education• Decolonising education• Transformative capabilities• Crossing boundaries: interdisciplinary and systemic approaches • Social learning: harnessing the emancipatory power of spaces outside
the formal curriculum
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Language
Enterprise and sustainability education use different language:
• Loaded words• Different vocabularies• Shared vocabularies
Both are THEMATIC – trying to break through disciplinary silo barriers.
We can get through different doors..
Sustainability CSR
EthicsEnterprise
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Joint Institutional Approaches: partnership building
Developing on twin tracks within the same institution
Opportunities to: • cross skill• share techniques and approaches • ensure that if one approach secures an entry into a school,
they are equipped to be able to raise the other issue
Can enterprise educators get through doors (staff and student) we can’t?
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Different doors inDifferent journeysDifferent outcomes
Map your own journey}
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There ARE differences of emphasis…..
Distinctions
• Between entrepreneurship and enterprise education
• Misconceptions
Ethics
• Engagement, partnership, ecopreneurs
• Shared characteristics
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Students:
• Arrive creative – are they more or less creative by the end of year 1? Harness the natural enterprise of students
• Student action often instinctively combines sustainability and enterprise Are OUR silos the problem? Unteach” ourselves – academics and other staff
Personal reflection in learning Creativity + Collaboration
Challenges:• Framing the problem• Catching the vision• Figuring out a strategy
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So how can we help each other open the door to creativity?
• Work together• Create Joint opportunities• Share resources• Lead by example • Celebrate good practice• Create enterprise to help save the plant• Create sustainability that will work
• ….. Help students see they CAN create the world they want
‘Aha’ moments
What are our enterprise people doing?
Have they got through doors I can’t get through?
What could we do together?
Learning, Teaching and
Research