julie sol
Education through social entrepreneurship an integrated identity construction - Dance your PhD 2020
Social entrepreneurship education (SEE) is not just about developing bridging skills and dealing with competing logics (commercial, social, etc.). It is also about encountering students ‘emotions and societal engagement. By questioning students’ personal intentions and moral value, SEE can help students to integrate those as part of their social entrepreneur’s identity.
However, identity integration is far from easy as competing logics might trigger identity threats, conflicts and shifts. From the theoretical perspective of conversational learning, we theorize this process as ‘education through social entrepreneurship’, where students have conversational spaces to nurture their self-integrated identities. We suggest that to develop such self-integration skills, SEE could help students to develop their 1) mindfulness about their personal values, intentions, motivations and related actions; 2) capacities to be influential and be influenced in collectives; and 3) awareness of other systemic influential positions, including voices of absentees, on collective and individual actions and intentions.
By considering the integrative process as a multi-level phenomenon through conversations, this these explore an articulation of self and collective concepts, notably in terms of efficacy (beliefs and perceptions about the individual and collective capacity to act) and identity (beliefs and perceptions about ‘who we are’ and ‘what we do’). More precisely, we investigate the articulation of collective constructs (collective efficacy and collective identity) and emotions, with individual-level constructs already mobilized in SEE (self-efficacy and self-identity). Second, we experiment the use of collective narrative practices in SE courses as a promising tool for students’ identity integration. In this video, we dance our experimentation with collective narrative practices in a Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship course (LSM, UCLouvain 2019-2020).
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Based on the PhD thesis of Julie SOLBREUX
Title:
Education through social entrepreneurship, towards an integrated identity construction
Music and video creation:
Tom Play
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE-znKX2IK_zSaw-9V5Y_rg/playlists
Dancers:
Lysiane Delanaye
Manon Fauconnier
Coralie Helleputte
Gea Hernandez Castro
Nicolas Kervyn de Meerendré
Julie Solbreux
Coaches:
Gea Hernandez Castro & Rose Gomez Zuniga
Text and narration
Julie Solbreux
Julie Hermans
Pictures
https://pixabay.com/fr/
Research Institutes
UCLouvain LOURiM & UNamur IRDENa
Julie Solbreux 2021