Formal and Non-Formal Education

Author(s):  
Lucimar da Silva Itelvino ◽  
Priscila Rezende da Costa

Social entrepreneurs convert social problems into opportunities, create businesses, and transform entrepreneurial experience into social changes. Therefore, it is important to understand the formation of social entrepreneurs as creators of social innovations. This chapter tries to understand how the formation of social entrepreneurs occurs. The authors analyzed the narratives of the life stories of social entrepreneurs in Brazil. The results showed that the formation of social entrepreneurs is linked to their learning spaces and contexts, their leadership trajectory, and their motivations to undertake social entrepreneurship, as these factors are permeated by formal and non-formal education. The formation of social entrepreneurs results in the development of innovative products, processes, or methods that improve the quality of life and reduce inequality, leading to exponential social innovations.

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Loredana Nicoleta Zainea ◽  
Sorin-George Toma ◽  
Cătălin Grădinaru ◽  
Ștefan Catană

Due to rapid evolution of new technologies and the accelerated economic and social change, many organizations have realized in recent years that in order to survive in this turbulent and competitive global environment it is necessary to take into account the needs and expectations of their stakeholders, as well as to make the labour relationships more flexible and to adopt a socially responsible behaviour. Social enterprises may be the solution as they represent a business model adapted to the 21st century, which through their activity create a balance between economic, financial, cultural, social and environmental needs. In fact, last decades have witnessed the emergence and development of concepts such as social economy and enterprise, social entrepreneurship. As a driver of innovation, job creation and economic growth, social entrepreneurship can and should contribute to economic well-being and social progress. On this line, it is worth to emphasize that the activities of social entrepreneurs may have an appreciable impact on the quality of life of people around the world. Also, social entrepreneurship represents a complex and multidimensional concept that has constituted a topic of great significance for numerous researchers in the past decades. The paper aims to define the concepts of social entrepreneurship and quality of life, and to illustrate their relationship in the case of TOMS company. The descriptive and quantitative research method used by the authors was based on secondary data found in the electronic databases, international journals and corporate reports. The paper contributes to a better understanding of the two concepts, namely social entrepreneurship and quality of life. Also, it shows that they are two related concepts as the first one has a positive impact on the second one through various actions, such as ensuring the basic material conditions, increasing the level of education, or improving the health system. Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship, Quality of Life, Entrepreneurship, TOMS Company.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariawan ◽  
Titien Agustina

Nowadays a Social entrepreneurship is most important field in all service and public sectors. In other ways it gives all way ofthinking in a social terms like poverty and hunger. Also it is compelling life stories and it gives a progress against increasingWorld issues of poor living and sickness. This term offers the opportunities of living and money for poor people by representinghigher level of social problems. It also gives a chance of improvement by insights process of social entrepreneur’s analysis. Inthe little business these social things, usually reinvent the fact that they have to struggle for maintaining and managing sm allbusiness with comparatively other variety of business. So usually a management can be done in social entrepreneurs in rarebasis for the self fulfilment of all data, in company these issues is ahead from many years by doing isolation, these are hoppingfor complete impact in these issues for better economic growth. There are lots of challenging changes has to do to performthese management in all over World. The most important thing is done in this paper is to make a high level of quality analysis insocial entrepreneurship as on the demand of sectors. These is made so fast as it affect all others analysis like educationdepartment of tenure and recognition


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Borscheva ◽  
Yulia Fedorova ◽  
Lyubov Zasova ◽  
Guzal Islamova ◽  
Ksenia Borscheva

Abstract As a result of the conducted research, the main approaches to the study of social entrepreneurship, its characteristic features and differences from charitable activities, traditional business and the activities of non-profit organizations were identified. The important role of social entrepreneurs - leaders who take risks and find innovative opportunities for combining resources to solve social problems and create social value is determined. The main approaches to the development of organizational and legal forms of social entrepreneurship implemented in different countries are highlighted. The analysis of foreign experience has shown that in the conditions of globalization, social entrepreneurship has covered all countries, and in many countries, it has already become a full-fledged economic institution. The emergence and development of social entrepreneurship not only makes it possible to increase the level of accessibility of consumption of goods and services, but also contributes to the mitigation or even solution of many existing social problems through the introduction of social innovations, which leads to an increase in the level of well-being of the population.


2019 ◽  
pp. 1075-1090
Author(s):  
Berat Cicek ◽  
Mehmet Ali Türkmenoğlu

Entrepreneurship has been an attractive topic for scholars over several decades. However, social entrepreneurship has remained relatively understudied in scale and scope. More specifically, the aspect of women in entrepreneurship is mostly untouched. Therefore, this chapter aims to examine the role of women in social entrepreneurship in an emerging economy such as Turkey. This research provides literature on definitions of social entrepreneurship and the differences between social entrepreneurship and business entrepreneurship by taking the historical development of entrepreneurship into account. Secondary data of four difference-maker women entrepreneurs are demonstrated through analyzing videos, newspapers, websites, and interviews of the entrepreneurs. Four different life stories of social entrepreneurs suggest that Turkish women social entrepreneurs face many challenges from their environment. The life stories indicate that they touched women's lives by improving their social status as well as economic conditions.


Author(s):  
Leilani Goosen

This chapter will highlight how practitioners use trans-disciplinary approaches to conduct Action Research (AR) in the context of e-schools, Community Engagement (CE) and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). The objectives provide details on how: AR is used to align e-education with life-enhancing values and in situations dealing with partnerships towards CE and/or ICT4D matters at local, national and international levels; to promote e-learning and development among those previously excluded from formal education; AR is contributing to transformation and equity in the context of e-schools, CE and ICT4D; AR CE is contributing to improving the quality of life for all; changes and/or growth in the way in which AR is utilized and interpreted can be explored when such questions are raised; AR can stay relevant in light of the ever-increasing speed of change in terms of technological innovations; and examples of ground-breaking AR work can thus be achieved.


2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Ashley ◽  
Tracy K. Fasolino

Hospice and palliative care aim to improve the quality of life for patients and families impacted by chronic, serious, and life-threatening illnesses. Patients and families benefit from earlier integration of palliative care and seamless transitions to hospice care. Nurses are an integral part of the care team, and their understanding of these services is critical. However, many nurses do not receive formal education in hospice and palliative care. This leads to lack of skills that nurses need to provide and discuss hospice and palliative care across care settings. Nurses in an acute care setting of a large health system were invited to participate in a survey, Attitudes Towards Care at the End-of-Life. The results of this survey revealed that nurses believe that patients and families need to be communicated with honestly regarding their disease, but nurses lack the knowledge of how to facilitate these discussions. Another key finding is that nurses feel less confident with non-pharmacologic interventions to relieve patients’ suffering. Education is urgently needed in these areas.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Zina Machničová ◽  
Marcela Chreneková

AbstractSocial entrepreneurship is important tool in eliminating regional disparities, inclusion of socially excluded people into society, overall improvement of the quality of life and much more. This paper aims to analyse the development of municipal social entrepreneurship in the conditions of the Banská Bystrica self-governing region, where some of the less developed districts are located. The main sources of research were questionnaire realized among local government representatives, plan of the economic and social development of the district and statistical data. In the article, there were many indicators examined, such as quantity of the municipal social enterprises, its activities, support or barriers of its development. The results points to fact that only 7% of the participants of research own municipal social enterprise. The most common barrier to establish and manage these enterprises is inadequate knowledge of the relevant legislation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
Natália Rodrigues Dos Reis ◽  
Leandro De Oliveira Sant'Ana ◽  
Felipe Faria Da Costa ◽  
Aline Aparecida De Souza Ribeiro ◽  
Yuri De Almeida Costa Campos ◽  
...  

Introduction: Aging is defined as a progressive process with biological, psychological and social changes. Objective: To identify the indicators of adherence, motivations and benefits perceived by elderly people in the gym for the elderly. Methods: 30 elderly (21 women) participated (67 ± 4 years; 76 ± 3 kg; 164 ± 7 cm; 28 ± 2 kg/m2). An individual interview was conducted, guided by questions related to the object of study. The data obtained were treated using the content analysis technique of the Bardin method. Results: For the adherence indicators, a better health condition (90%), quality of life (76%), quality of sleep (73%) and reduction of stress and weight (63%) were identified. For motivation the answers were to make new friends and get out of solitude (100%) as well as living with people of the same age group (95%). And the perceived benefits were pain reduction (27%), increased muscle capacity (25%), autonomy (21%), functional capacity (20%), balance (18%), flexibility (14%) and what all the individuals realized there was a significant improvement in quality of life (100%). Conclusion: The main indicators of adherence were health and quality of life, the motivational factors were to reduce loneliness and to increase social life, and among the most reported benefits were quality of life and health.Keywords: elderly gym, physical exercise, health.


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