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Karine Oganisjana
Using Problem-focused Approach to Nurture Creativity and Entrepreneurship among Students
Abstract This paper discusses the use of a problem-focused approach to nurture creativity and entrepreneurship among students in a school setting. The study sample consisted of three groups of students (age 16 years old) from three secondary schools in Malaysia. The participants consist of 25–35 students from each school (n=95). The data collection took place during three workshops, which were conducted using a problem-focused approach, with participants from each school. At the end of each workshop, participants were asked to fill in an electronic diary about their experience. The participants’ reflections after the first workshop were analysed to identify the use of a problem-focused appr…
Financial, organisational and informative involvement of the society in social innovation processes in Latvia
International audience; Social innovation brings to inclusion and wellbeing, improving the quality of life and socioeconomic performance and enhancing the society's collective power and resources. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to promote social innovation processes in any society, providing research for getting the understanding of different aspects of it, including the main actors and the extent to which they are involved in social innovation. The research presented in this paper reveals the main stakeholders of social innovation and analyses the methodology elaborated by the authors for determining the involvement of the society in social innovation processes at financial, organis…
Understanding entrepreneurship development in Latvia: a cross-disciplinary approach
This paper analyses economic and educational challenges on the way of understanding and formation of entrepreneurship in Latvia in its almost 20-year long post socialistic period. Along with the state support programmes for small business development, entrepreneurship as a new concept is researched integrating as well the world experience in this field. It is shown that entrepreneurship is a dynamic system of the components determined in mixed methods research. The elaborated holistic functional-structural model of entrepreneurship illustrates that entrepreneurship can be developed holistically as a system when students identify, generate and realise opportunities into new personal, social …
Does Competence-Oriented Higher Education Lead to Students’ Competitiveness?
XXI a. būdingi netikrumo sudėtingumo issūkiai, kurie yra postmodernaus gyvenimo ypatumai. Esant pasaulinei ekonomikos krizei labai svarbu turėti aukstąjį issilavinimą, kuris yra didžiulis studentų kompetencijos kėlimo potencialas, o sis sudaro visos tautos kompetencijos pagrindą. Kadangi studentų kompetencijos puoselėjimas glaudžiai susijes su jų verslumo augimu, straipsnyje aptariami kai kurie daktaro disertacijos „Studentų verslumo ugdymas mokymo procese“ (Oganisjana, 2010 b) tyrimai, atkreipiamas dėmesys į siuolaikinio aukstojo mokslo tikslą ugdyti studentų verslumą ir kompetenciją. Verslumo tikslai tradiciskai susije su ekonomika, verslu, vadyba, psichologija, sociologija ir antropologi…
Engaging universities in social innovation research for understanding sustainability issues
International audience; The paper presents the analysis of a three-stage research conducted by the authors within a social innovation project in collaboration with international master students of Riga Technical University for determining the factors, which motivate people to be involved in the solution of social problems. The authors not only analyse and use the outcomes of the students’ research but also provide feasibility study of using the potential of study research at the university, for implementing serious research projects. Data collection from Africa, Asia, America and Europe was organised jointly by all the students via web-based survey for creating an original data base for the…
Studentu uzņēmības veicināšana studiju procesā
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The Role of Education in Promoting Social Innovation Processes in the Society
<em>The<strong> </strong>purpose of the paper<strong> </strong>is to</em> <em>clarify the role of education in promoting social innovation processes in the society based on the main findings of the theoretical study conducted from October 2014 to January 2015 within the project “Involvement of the Society in Social Innovation for Providing Sustainable Development of Latvia” supported by the National Research Program 5.2.</em><strong> </strong><em>EKOSOC-LV. The paper provides the analysis of causal interaction between social innovation and education, as well as two conceptual models which disclose the relationship between soc…