Education for Social Change: The Case of Teacher Education in Wales

Rebecca Weicht and Svanborg R. Jónsdóttir
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Rebecca Weicht: Department of Strategy, Enterprise and Sustainability, Manchester Metropolitan University, All Saints, Manchester M15 6BH, UK
Svanborg R. Jónsdóttir: School of Education, University of Iceland, Stakkahlíð 1, Reykjavík 105, Iceland

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 15, 1-19

Abstract: Entrepreneurial education offers valuable opportunities for teachers to foster and enhance creativity and action competence, which are also important for sustainability education. The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) is a leader in the development of entrepreneurial education in teacher education both in Wales and internationally. The objective of this article is to shed light on how an entrepreneurial education approach can help foster social change. The aim of this study is to learn from teacher educators at UWTSD about how they support creativity, innovation, and an enterprising mindset in their learners. A case study approach is applied. By analysing documentary evidence such as module and assignment handbooks, we explore how teacher educators at UWTSD deliver entrepreneurial education for social change. Our findings indicate that UWTSD’s development of entrepreneurial education in teacher training has enabled constructive learning, cultivating creativity and action competence. We provide examples that display how the intentions of the Curriculum for Wales and entrepreneurial education approaches of the UWTSD emerge in practice. These examples show outcomes of the entrepreneurial projects that evince the enactment of social change. The findings also show that the educational policy of Wales supports entrepreneurial education throughout all levels of the educational system.

Keywords: entrepreneurial education; sustainability education; social change; creativity; innovation; action competence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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