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Enterprising Learning
Paul Kearney
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Matter of degreesMatter of degreesEnterprise learning simply means that to a greater degree students use initiative, resourcefulness and other enterprising skills in the very way they learn
© P Kearney 2010 Enterprising Ways to Teach and Learn
(www.enterprisingeducation.com)
Definition # 1Definition # 1Being enterprising is developing productive ideas and using initiative, innovation and industry to create something of value – even when things are difficult and uncertain – and involves the risk of losing something valuable.
Enterprise is taking advantage of what ‘might be' (possibilities), rather than accepting what ‘will be’ (fate). Many enterprising people have a heightened desire to make things happen and sometimes with a particular style, such as tenacity or flair. In a business setting it is called entrepreneurialism, but you also need enterprise to run a club, a household, a good classroom or to help yourself and others. Paul Kearney
Enterprising Ways to Teach and Learn ( www.enterprisingeducation.com)
Definition – Definition – the enterprising the enterprising personperson
An enterprising individual has a positive, flexible and adaptable disposition toward change, seeing it as normal and as an opportunity rather than a problem. To see change in this way, an enterprising individual has a security born of self-confidence, and is at ease when dealing with insecurity, risks and the unknown. An enterprising individual has the capacity to initiate creative ideas... and develop them through into action in a determined manner.
An enterprising individual is able, even anxious, to take responsibility, and is an effective communicator, negotiator, influencer, planner and organiser. An enterprising individual is active, confident, purposeful, not passive, uncertain and dependent.Towards An ‘Enterprising’ Culture Colin Ball, OECD Education Monograph, Paris 1989
Enterprise AttributesEnterprise Attributes Initiative get up and go
Opportunism seeing possibilities
Drive give it your all
Resilience sticking at it
Managing risk taking risks
Innovation finding new ways
Resourcefulness making the most of it
Problem solving fixing problems and trouble
Communication getting message across
Influence persuading others
Teamwork working with others
Learning staying up-to-date© Paul Kearney
Broad and narrowBroad and narrowNarrow definition i.e. entrepreneurialism, private small business...
Broader definitions i.e. ‘being enterprising’ in all aspects of life (including the commercial setting i.e. entrepreneurialism)
Evidence suggests the goals of entrepreneurialism can be achieved through pursuing the broader definition of being enterprising but not necessarily vice versa.
© P Kearney 2010 Enterprising Ways to Teach and Learn (www.enterprisingeducation.com)
Approaches/purposesApproaches/purposesEducation about enterpriseTraditionally, enterprise education has concentrated on giving students knowledge of the world of work and business, i.e. learning about enterprise. The focus, however, has been on economics and commerce, with an exclusive private-sector flavour. It is important to include an enterprise in the public and community sectors of complex modern societies. Education for enterpriseThe emphasis is on promoting enterprising behaviour and attitudes necessary to create, manage or respond to change or opportunities, wherever they may appear. Again this agenda of disposing young people favourably towards business in the private sector – needs expanding.Education through enterpriseThe purpose is using enterprising experiences to learn any part of the curriculum. Traditionally, however, student-directed experiential learning has been limited to using ‘mini-enterprise’ activities to achieve business study outcomes, and even this often happens outside the mainstream curriculum. © P Kearney 2010 Enterprising Ways to Teach and Learn (www.enterprisingeducation.com)
Caught-taught-boughtCaught-taught-boughtEnterprise is
Caught through practise and situation (virus)
Taught providing knowledge eg problem solving-techniques and
project management (injection)
Bought ‘buying’ into attitudes… wanting to be enterprising, seeing
the value’
© P Kearney 2010 Enterprising Ways to Teach and Learn (www.enterprisingeducation.com)
‘‘The keyThe key’’
Constancy and diversity is the key!
• Teaching in an enterprising way provides the constancy
• Doing it across the curriculum provides the diversity
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Enterprising pedagogyEnterprising pedagogy
curriculumMediaLanguageITCBusinessTrans disciplinary
pedagogyinitiativeinnovationindustryproblem team workopportunism
projects
propertiesOwnershipExperientialReflectionCooperative
what how
why
productivityemployabilityempowerment
© P Kearney 2010 Enterprising Ways to Teach and Learn (www.enterprisingeducation.com)
Two for oneTwo for oneTeaching in an enterprising way
develops
• enterprising skillsPlus
• quality curriculum outcomes, because the learning is purposeful, interesting and authentic
© P Kearney 2010 Enterprising Ways to Teach and Learn (www.enterprisingeducation.com)
Matter of degreesMatter of degreesEnterprise Learning simply means that to a greater degree pupils use initiative, resourcefulness and other enterprising skills in the very way they learn
© P Kearney 2010 Enterprising Ways to Teach and Learn (www.enterprisingeducation.com)
4 properties4 propertiesThere are more opportunities to learn in anenterprising way when the learning blends
• ownership (responsibility)• experiential (first-hand)
• cooperative (social)• reflective© P Kearney 2010 Enterprising Ways to Teach and Learn (www.enterprisingeducation.com)
RebalancingRebalancing
Responsibilitystudent teacher
dependent ………………………………… independent
Experience1st-hand hand
abstract … ………………………….. concrete
Cooperativeplanned unplanned
convenient ……..........………… strategic
Reflectivestructured accidental
Occasional ……………………..….................. constant
© P Kearney 2010 Enterprising Ways to Teach and Learn (www.enterprisingeducation.com)
The super The super questionsquestions
Every day ask how can I encourage the learners to
• take more responsibility
• learn first-hand
• learn with and from others
• create lessons for future © P Kearney 2010 Enterprising Ways to Teach and Learn
(www.enterprisingeducation.com)
Responsible learningResponsible learning( ownership)( ownership)
• Will the students learn more by managing the activity themselves?
• What am I doing, that the students could be doing themselves?
• What are the consequences of over-teaching or under-facilitating?
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Learning first-handLearning first-hand(experiential(experiential))
• How can the experience be made more authentic (realism)?
• What will give the learning usefulness?
• Who else would value the outcome?© P Kearney 2010 Enterprising Ways to Teach and Learn
(www.enterprisingeducation.com)
Reflective learningReflective learning So whatSo what !! !!
Review what happened?Reflect what does it mean?Generalise what is the lesson?Project what will I do in the future?
How will I stimulate the students to ‘think hard’?
© P Kearney 2010 Enterprising Ways to Teach and Learn (www.enterprisingeducation.com)
Cooperative learningCooperative learning
• How can students teach one another?
• How can they work together?
• Who can they work with others, other than peers?
© P Kearney 2010 Enterprising Ways to Teach and Learn (www.enterprisingeducation.com)
ProjectsProjectsGood starting point• easy to manage• low resources• low curriculum impact• non threatening• high visibility
But limited• only some learners participate, some of time• lacking in ‘constancy’ and ‘diversity’© Paul Kearney 2010 Enterprising Ways to Teach and Learn