Social Entrepreneurship and Partnerships with Regional and Remote Schools

Authors

  • Bernadette Walker-Gibbs Central Queensland University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v14i2.502

Keywords:

social entrepreneurship, educational partnerships, problem solving, innovation

Abstract

This paper explores how notions of social entrepreneurship have inspired me to engage in innovative partnerships with two small rural schools in Central Queensland, Australia. I seek to explore practical ways in which to help rural schools contribute to the transformation of their schools, considering that we are now in an information-based society operating in a postmodern world where change happens quickly and continually. The paper explores the mapping of the journeys undertaken both by the schools and by myself as a university lecturer, and analyses how the concept of social entrepreneurship is used to empower schools with these changes. I examine the two partnerships with local schools more closely in tenus of helping the participants - myself included - become social entrepreneurs by deploying innovative problem solving strategies that can provide ways forward to help us to begin to revolutionise the regional and rural education 'industry' and in the process engage regional and rural communities.

Author Biography

Bernadette Walker-Gibbs, Central Queensland University

Bernadette Walker-Gibbs is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Creative Arts at the Rockhampton campus of Central Queensland University, Australia. Her Doctor of Philosophy thesis generated a framework for conceptualising and implementing postLiteracy. Her research and teaching interests include e-Ieaming, teachers as entrepreneurs and educational partnerships

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Published

01-07-2004

How to Cite

Walker-Gibbs, B. (2004). Social Entrepreneurship and Partnerships with Regional and Remote Schools. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 14(2), 16–26. https://doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v14i2.502

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2004): Education in Rural Australia

Section

JOURNAL PAPERS

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