Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education for a Sustainable Society

EEUK

This group is dedicated to empowering Enterprise Educators to play a key role in shaping a more sustainable future. By addressing the interconnected challenges of social, environmental, and ecological sustainability, the SIG supports educators in driving meaningful change and fostering innovative solutions.

The SIG has the following aims:

to connect and nurture a learning community of Enterprise Educators and create a home for those wanting to develop themselves and contribute to a wider movement towards sustainable practice and provision in EE;

to curate, share and amplify existing good practice, so that Enterprise Educators do not have to re-invent the wheel;

to make a strong collective argument for mainstream use of existing alternative approaches in EEE and to reimagine and build educational spaces where other alternative approaches to poly-crisis challenges are invented and shared;

to facilitate dialogue and learning regarding ideas and perspectives that could influence and accelerate sustainable shifts, for example: ecological worldviews and planetary boundaries, systems thinking, policy in/to practice, value-action gap, future and long-term thinking, social justice, post-growth, de-growth and post-capitalism, restorative and regenerative business models and innovation, multiple value creation, multi-stakeholder theory, critical and eco-justice pedagogies, head-heart-hands practice, sustainability mindset and competence-based education, emotional and spiritual intelligence.

to explore/develop promising next practice regarding educator positionality, values and ethics, pedagogical aspects, curricula, teaching methods, assessment, extra-curricular provision and start-up support for a sustainable society;

to develop leadership in EE and in Higher Education, in service of movement building towards a more sustainable society and identify and contribute towards shifts needed in guidance and policy.

The SIG has been convened by Dr Catherine Brentnall, from Manchester Metropolitan University and Dr David Higgins from the University of Liverpool. It is supported by an organising committee of EEUK members: Professor Emeritus Andy Penaluna, University of Wales Trinity St David; Dr Trudie Murray, Munster Technological College; Dr Suneel Kunamaneni, University of Manchester; Dr Chris Moon, Middlesex University, Dr Carol Langston, Scotland’s Rural College and Dave Jarman, University of Bristol.

To signup for the SIG please join the EEUK mailing list, and tick the box for the Sustainability SIG.

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