enterprising education
Enterprise is about finding innovative ideas and using initiative, strategy, resourcefulness and determination to produce something of value - even when things are difficult and involve the risk of losing something of value.
It is taking advantage of what might be, rather than accepting what will be. 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 2006
Kearney asserts that without an enterprising disposition, our young risk being overly dependent on others, vulnerable to changing circumstances and frightened by uncertainty - and nations will stagnate. BUT enterprise cannot be developed by the occasional experience. An enterprising education is essential.
An enterprising education simply means that to a greater degree students use initiative, resourcefulness and other enterprising skills in the very way they learn, every day at school. The proposition is straight forward.
An enterprising pedagogy leads to better curriculum outcomes - because students are constantly engaged in richer, more useful and enjoyable learning activities. And at the same time it nurtures enterprising attributes, almost as a by-product - because developing enterprise attributes like all generic skills, demands constant practise in a range of contexts. And this is what learning the curriculum offers: constancy and variety.
Introduction to enterprising learning
featuring Paul Kearney in the Teachers TV Guru Series UK
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FREE RESOURCES
There are a number of free sample resources on this site. They will support your enterprising teaching including the KS4 Enterprise Initiative (UK). Most are samples from existing publications, while others are taken from up-and-coming publications. All are unedited 'first cuts'. The actual publications can be ordered on this site.
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FREE RESOURCE Hot Spots - This challenge has a strong citizenship focus. Several reflection tools are included.
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