Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Social Entrepreneurship Education - Benchmark 3.5 Conference in San Diego, 3/26/11

This is the second in a 2-part series of colloquia focusing on social entrepreneurship education: It will examine approaches to teaching social entrepreneurship from various disciplinary backgrounds, including design, anthropology and education. As Social Entrepreneurship education evolves, this necessitates developing new curricular initiatives to support students in multiple disciplines to understand how to approach social issues and problems through the lens of social entrepreneurship.

The format of this colloquium will include short presentations of the approaches undertaken at three institutions: The New School, Tulane and Babson College. The New School teaches a course on social entrepreneurship linking a world-class design school (Parsons the New School for Design) with a renowned program in nonprofit management. Tulane has a course co-designed and co-taught by a student social entrepreneur where students learn through partnerships with local K-12 schools.  Babson teaches social entrepreneurship through field-based site visits to social entrepreneurs in Turkey.

 Panelists:

Anna Rabinowicz, Associate Professor, Product Design, Parsons The New School for Design

Lisa DiCarlo, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Babson College (*not yet confirmed)

Carol Whelan, Professor of Practice, Teacher Preparation and Certification Program, Tulane University

Jason Winikoff, Sophmore, Tulane University

For more information about this conference, go to The Nonprofit Academic Centers Council at  http://www.naccouncil.org/benchmark.asp.

For more information about Tulane's Collaborative Programs, go to
http://teacher.tulane.edu/index_files/Newsletter%205th%20yr%20edition.pdf

View the brief video of Ms. Branche discussion how the infusion of social innovation strategies is impacting her teachers, her students and the Tulane University students who are working at her school, Banneker Elementary and Middle School.

Jason Winikoff, a Tulane student teaching about New Orleans genres of music  to Banneker Elementary students:

The original collaborative team from Tulane and Banneker is pictured below.

Carol Whelan, Laura White, Cheryllyn Branche and Marie Gould