Learning, Teaching and Research
Making the links:
Bringing together Enterprise
& Sustainability Education
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Teaching and
Research
Results of HEA-funded workshop
20 Universities, 1 day
• Enterprise Education
• Entrepreneurship Education
• Opportunities for collaboration
• The student voice
Themes:
1) Language
2) Skills & Attributes
3) Flexible Pedagogies
4) Joint Institutional Approaches:
partnership building
5) Distinctions
6) Ethics
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Teaching and
Research
Enterprise Education
• 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.’
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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:
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Adaptive capacity
Taking the initiative
Intuitive decision-making
Making things happen
Networking
Innovating
Future thinking
Interdisciplinary skills
Personal ethical code
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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
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future narratives
future thinking
Interdisciplinary engagement
critical thinking
social / collaborative thinkers
making a difference
creative solutions
innovation
empowerment, efficacy, self belief
experiential learning
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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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Teaching and
Research
Flexible Pedagogies
Opportunity to match flexible pedagogies agenda set out in HEA Report:
Flexible Pedagogies and New Pedagogic Ideas (2013) Tilbury and Ryan
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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:
Sustainability
CSR
Enterprise
Ethics
• Loaded words
• Different vocabularies
• Shared vocabularies
Both are THEMATIC – trying to
break through disciplinary silo
barriers.
We can get through different
doors..
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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 in
Different journeys
Different outcomes
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Map your own journey
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There ARE differences of
emphasis…..
Distinctions
Ethics
• Between entrepreneurship and
enterprise education
• Misconceptions
• Engagement, partnership,
ecopreneurs
• Shared characteristics
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Research
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?
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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
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Research
‘Aha’ moments
What are our enterprise people doing?
Have they got through doors I can’t get through?
What could we do together?