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Social Innovation Education: Nurturing the social self over the entrepreneurial self
Neoliberalism ‘has become so incorporated into the culture of western liberal-democratic societies, that few people ever think about it’(1) , which has resulted in people thinking that enterprise is more important than intrinsic value(2) . The basic neoliberal values of humans existing to compete in the market, the prevalence of individual responsibility and personal gain, […]
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Piloting the NEMESIS Lessonseries
On a sunny Tuesday in October, we went to a high school in Alphen aan de Rijn, Netherlands. Today I was going to do my first pilot of the NEMESIS Lessonseries Co-Creation. I felt excited and a little nervous. What would they think? Will the students dig it? What I had planned was two groups […]
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Is there a link between student participation rights and “doing well” at school?
I want to draw your attention to the article “Four arenas of school-based participation: towards a heuristic for children’s rights-informed educational practice” by Mannion, Sowerby and L’Anson (2020). They sought to understand if and how young people would make a link between their participation rights and ‘doing well’ at school. The research involved a number […]
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Competence development 2: Developing collaborations and building meaningful relations
Education is not solely about preparing young people for the world of work but also about equipping them with competences that will enable them to become socially proactive, empowered, responsible and engaged citizens and thus collectively contribute to and benefit from an inclusive and sustainable future. As part of the second blog series, this volume […]
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Staying Together: online call between Los Albares, Ruffi and Willow Tree Academy schools
One of the main outcomes for a NEMESIS school to participate in NEMESIS is that teachers and pupils become part of an innovative European community. After some months of lockdown, some of our NEMESIS schools decided to have an online call in order to share experiences to making connections across the world from Los Albares, Ruffi […]
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NEMESIS Projects Map
During these times of uncertainty, the education system is one of the things that has been affected more than anything. With schools and colleges closed, there was a sudden shift to online and home-learning, as well as uncertainty about the future regarding exams, graduations, and ongoing projects. Like many other school activities, most of the […]
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NEMESIS and the unexpected
In the Co-creation Labs at Rockingham Junior and Infant School the process is bringing up some exciting possibilities and activities that we hadn’t bargained for. One idea that a 10 year old (Year 6) voiced about feeling intimidated by older children when he walks to the local shop has led to a whole off shoot […]
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NEMESIS partners meet in Seville
What is social innovation? Is it about finding imaginative solutions for social problems? About subverting power relations? About bringing systemic change? Is it the same that social entrepreneurship? Trying to define social innovation was one of the challenges NEMESIS partners faced at our second project meeting, held in Seville.
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3, 2, 1… NEMESIS!
Fürth, Germany. October 10th 2017. Around twenty people from fourteen organizations across Europe meet for the first time. Some have known each other for years. For others, this is their first encounter. But we are all here for the same reason: to build a bridge between education and social innovation. Welcome to NEMESIS kick-off meeting!