Enterprising Education
The Enterprising Education website is dedicated to promoting an enterprising approach to education. From this site you can access the best resources on enterprise and the ideas of Paul Kearney.
New Publications
ENTERPRISING WAYS TO TEACH & LEARN
(Secondary Education UK)
These three books are not just about enterprise, they are about good teaching practice.
Also see FREE RESOURCES for samples.
Promoting both a hands-on and minds-on approach the three publications are sophisticated, realistic and ready-to-use.
The books will help those wishing to
. foster enterprising attributes, core skills, employability and similar generic skills
. introduce the world of business and work
. promote citizenship and sustainability
. re-engage pupils
"The books are not only important because they support our national agenda with enterprise but also our need for better teaching."
Stephen Cabrera – National Teaching Award For Enterprise 2006 United Kingdom
"At last publications that place 'being enterprising' right at the centre of school life... they are by far the most comprehensive available. I like the emphasis on social responsibility."
Don Firkins, Associate Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
"You can not teach people business, unless you do it in an enterprising way. Teachers want material like this - smart and practical."
Marge Roberts, Institute for Education Business Excellence
"I think Book One is perhaps the most important work on enterprise in education I've read..."
Michael Cross, former head, Determined to Succeed, Scottish Government
OTHER RESOURCES
FREE SAMPLE RESOURCES
AUTHOR - Paul Kearney
As an analyst, innovator and commentator, Paul Kearney is acclaimed as a leading expert in the field of ‘enterprising learning’. Paul has worked in enterprise in education since 1987. He has reviewed and advised enterprise initiatives around the world. In partnership, he recently evaluated the Australian government’s 21ST Century Initiatives in Enterprise Learning, the centrepiece of that country’s enterprise in education. The project also involved Paul chairing the International Panel of experts. Before this he produced a comparative report on Determined to Succeed, Scotland’s central national initiative. Of his 17 publications, the first edition series: Enterprising Ways to Teach and Learn has had a profound impact on practice in the field.
Pedagogie et esprit d'entreprendre
A major publication in this area is available in the French language, see below for availability:
Paul Kearney Bernard Surlemont
17,50 €
Link to publishers
Ideas
We have arranged for Paul Kearney to share ideas through a number of mechanisms, such as
- free samples from his publications
- monthly features with free resources
- seminars online or offline
- consultancies
Paul Kearney in the UK Teachers TV Guru Series
Monthly Features
Feature One
AN ENTERPRISING PEDAGOGY
“Sorry, it is not that easy.”
“One or two projects will not nurture enterprising skills, even when students are immersed in an entrepreneurial context infused with knowledge of business. As important as projects are, enterprise, like all generic skills, requires constant practice and in a range of diverse situations – especially if they are to be transferrable. Where can students constantly practise enterprising skills? What do students do most of the time? Learn. So if they learn using initiative, opportunism, problem solving and other enterprising skills they will have plenty of practice. Where do they get the diversity? By learning this way in many curriculum areas.
There are greater opportunities to learn in an enterprising manner, when the learning blends four areas: student-responsibility, direct-experience, cooperation and reflection. It is strategically managing these four areas with knowledge and skill – in detail – that forms the basis of nurturing enterprising skills. Of course there is more to it than this...” Kearney 2009
download a summary of the Enterprising Learning Concepts and Workshop PowerPoint Presentation.
Feature Two
AN ENTERPRISING PASSPORT - TALKING THE WALK
For all those interested in new assessment and reporting approaches - see Paul Kearney's article on Walking the Talk Download the article along with an example of an Enterprising Passport on the FREE RESOURCES page.
“In many ways Enterprising Passports fly in the face of more conventional approaches to recording and reporting on enterprise skills, yet they are complementary.
The Enterprising Passport is built on the proposition that if a student has enterprise, he should be able to describe his enterprise...and in an enterprising manner. In short the Enterprising Passport is an enterprising account of one’s enterprise. Students use it to market themselves as ‘enterprising’ to whom they choose and how they want. As such each passport is idiosyncratic and colourful, personalised yet professional. The student is the author of the document/object, which remains their ‘property’. The school offers help but it does not verify the content. The process is as important as the product. And the quality of the passport itself is evidence of enterprise. Parents and employers respond well to the passports. (Young people have the right to self-representation).” Kearney 2010
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