Tag: Frank Dawson
Can you Teach Entrepreneurship?
Can you teach entrepreneurship?
The question "Can you teach entrepreneurship?" has received much attention over the last decade.
People who teach entrepreneurship have an important job to do. However, much like the relationship between a 'product' and its life sustaining 'market', more consideration needs to be given to how people learn/engage with this subject.
For me, academia stills over-emphases traditional didactic pedagogy. Insufficient thought is being applied to how learners learn and how entrepreneurial minds think. Read More
Educational Entrepreneur Making a Difference
Asfaw Yemiru: The educational entrepreneur making a difference
Delight can turn to frustration when an excellent new recruit, who is just settling into the post, decides to accept a job offer elsewhere. But occasionally, you know they’ve made the right decision... Read More
Pioneering Outdoor Entrepreneur
Within the mind of the pioneering outdoor entrepreneur
"A torch?
"No, you don't need one.
"The night is not dark!"
Frank Dawson, the 'pioneering outdoor entrepreneur' and head of centre, spoke with calm assertion to 10 newly acquainted teenagers.
Being 10pm, the group was visibly alarmed. None had anticipated that their sensible request for light (ahead of their night walk through an ancient Cumbrian wood) might be refused... Read More