The role of social enterprise in student employability: the case of SIDshare, a co-curricular student led social enterprise

IF 1.8 4区 教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Journal of Geography in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-09-09 DOI:10.1080/03098265.2022.2122031
Abigail Upton, D. Sporton
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ABSTRACT Within Geography, as in other disciplines, the neoliberalisation of Higher Education has led to an increasing curriculum focus on graduate attributes with student employability as an outcome. The multiple and competing discourses of employability that shape pedagogies can at times ignore social enterprise and enterprising skills that are too often neglected within geography curricula. In this contribution we draw on our experience working with SIDshare, a co-curricula student run social enterprise operating as an NGO (non-governmental organisation), to show how enterprising skills nurtured through student communities of practice have enhanced employability. Drawing on a series of semi-structured interviews undertaken with graduates who previously participated in SIDshare we analyse how their engagement contributed to graduate employment outcomes. SIDshare had increased not only the development of enterprising skills and entrepreneurialism but also encouraged the development of transferable, so-called “softer skills”. These included strong interpersonal skills, team skills and good working relationships as well as professionalism developed through participation in an extracurricular student community of practice alongside engagement with external partners. Effectual and causal reasoning skills were developed further encouraging entrepreneurialism. Graduate interviewees clearly demonstrated that their career success had been aided by their involvement in the co-curricular student led social enterprise, SIDshare.
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社会企业在学生就业能力中的作用:以学生主导的社会企业SIDshare为例
与其他学科一样,在地理领域,高等教育的新自由主义化导致课程越来越关注毕业生的属性,结果是学生的就业能力。塑造教学方法的就业能力的多重和相互竞争的话语有时会忽视社会企业和创业技能,而这些技能在地理课程中往往被忽视。在这篇文章中,我们借鉴了与SIDshare合作的经验,这是一个由学生开办的非政府组织(NGO)社会企业,展示了通过学生实践社区培养的创业技能如何提高了就业能力。通过对之前参加过SIDshare的毕业生进行的一系列半结构化访谈,我们分析了他们的参与对毕业生就业结果的影响。SIDshare不仅促进了企业技能和企业精神的发展,而且鼓励了可转让的所谓“软技能”的发展。这包括强大的人际交往能力、团队合作能力和良好的工作关系,以及通过参与课外学生实践社区和与外部合作伙伴的接触而培养的专业精神。有效和因果推理技能得到进一步发展,鼓励创业精神。毕业生受访者清楚地表明,他们的职业成功得益于参与学生主导的课外社会企业SIDshare。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Geography in Higher Education ( JGHE) was founded upon the conviction that the development of learning and teaching was vitally important to higher education. It is committed to promote, enhance and share geography learning and teaching in all institutions of higher education throughout the world, and provides a forum for geographers and others, regardless of their specialisms, to discuss common educational interests, to present the results of educational research, and to advocate new ideas.
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