The concept of ‘Social Entrepreneurship’ is deeply embedded in the principles of Social Sciences and aims to create significant social impact through a variety of initiatives and enterprises. It is operated within the non-profit, private and public sectors and within a variety of organisational settings. In this module, participants will work with theory, cases and their own social entrepreneurial projects to identify how social entrepreneurship can drive social change, and what kinds of social entrepreneurial activity create maximum social impact. Students will learn how to align their existing knowledge base from Social Care, Early Education and other associated disciplines and apply it to the creation and evaluation of social impact.
Lectures and workshops will be supplemented by brightspace, a virtual learning environment (VLE) platform where students can access and share resources. A combination of lectures and workshops using mixed methods of teaching will be provided including:
- experiential group exercises
- group and individual presentations
- small and large group discussion
- guest lectures
- site visits
- case studies of existing social enterprises
Students will participate in a group project, which they will present to a panel at the end of the module, which will demonstrate their ability to analytically apply both theoretical and practical approaches to Social Entrepreneurship.
Brightspace is used as the virtual learning environment (VLE) tool.
Following each session, and at the end of the module, students will be offered the opportunity to give anonymous feedback which can be openly discussed in class. Additionally, students will complete a Q6A module evaluation form.
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| Other Assessment(s) | 100 |