educating social entrepreneurs
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Educating Social Entrepreneurs
The University of Northampton model
Born or taught?
• Organiser, opportunity spotter, innovator, risk-taker, creative
• Need for achievement, autonomous, ambiguity tolerance
• (Say, Cantillon, Kirzner, Schumpter, Kight, Casson, Shackle mcLelland, Meredith, De Vries)
• They may be born that way, but can they learn?
• More importantly, can they be taught?
Entrepreneur v Social Entrepreneur
• How is what they ARE, different?
• How is what they DO, different?
• How does their model of business differ?
• How does their model of the world differ?
The field
• Limited body of research– Entrepreneurs are not MUCH different in classical terms– But how they do what they do is differently motivated
• Very little Higher Education– University of East London– Masters modules in many Universities-
• Harvard, Oxford etc• Very little education
– Enterprise education in schools• MASSIVE public policy interest
– SE units in Cabinet Office, DoH, DCLG• Lots of practice
– reflective and uncritical
The degree
How to do the business bit
Social issues & how society changes
Wider developmentdebate
The Social Enterprise degree
Business Entrepreneurship
Third World Development
Sociology & Social Welfare
Level 4
• Introducing Social Enterprise
• Introduction to Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurial Skills Development
• Volunteering
• The Developing World
• Social Identities and Everyday Life
• Introduction to Management
• English for Business Studies
Business Entrepreneurship
Third World Development
Sociology & Social Welfare
• Enterprise in Society
• New Ventures
• Globalisation and Development in the 21st Century
• Community Involvement
• Management Skills and Development
• Events Management
• Social Research: Principles and Practice
Level 5
Business Entrepreneurship
Third World Development
Sociology & Social Welfare
Level 6
• Dissertation• Research Project or Joint Dissertation• Growing Social Enterprises• Opportunity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship• Social Responsibility of Business• Development and change in the Third World• Utopias and Dystopias: Contemporary Themes in Social Theory• Social Change & Communities
Business Entrepreneurship
Third World Development
Sociology & Social Welfare
Routes
Business Entrepreneurship
Third World Development
Sociology & Social Welfare
AssociateStudents
Foundation Degree
SchoolsProgramme
EnterpriseEducators
PG Cert.
Diploma
MA SocialEnterprise
MgtBA (Hons) Social Enterprise Development
Infrastructure
BusinessLink
East Midlands
Business School School of Health
School of the Arts Knowledge Exchange
Business Entrepreneurship
Third World Development
Sociology & Social Welfare
NBS Funded Projects Unit
BA (Hons) Social Enterprise Development
Infrastructure
BusinessLink
East Midlands
Business School School of Health
School of the Arts Knowledge Exchange
NBS Funded Projects Unit
BA (Hons) Social Enterprise Development