Session Information
SES F 05, Paper Session
Paper Session
Contribution
The High School Created by Local Community
The objective of the study is to question the meaning of entrepreneurship as a learning challenge and form of agency. The paper examines the case of High School in Finland, founded 20 years ago. The school was from the beginning built to provide a learning environment which supports the formation of entrepreneurship and agency among the students by means of community oriented projects such as annual municipal fairs organized by the students. The study examines learning at two levels: (1) How have the community and its different actors learned to construct and maintain a new type of school? (2) What kinds of learning processes have take place among the students and teachers as they have dealt with the challenges of conducting entrepreneurship projects?
The study uses and develops cultural-historical activity theory in analyzing agency as object-oriented collective achievement, and entrepreneurship as a particular historical form of agency. I divide the historical development of the school into five phases, each characterized by particular changes in the object and in the network of involved activity systems and actors. The data consist of historical documents, interviews with central actors of the school, the municipality and local entrepreneurs, videotapes and ethnographic fieldnotes covering students' work in organizing the municipal fairs from 2004 to 2006, and students’ written reports. This paper will focus on how has the community and its different actors learned to construct that school by using narrative history and what are reasons for change.
The detailed preanalysis of the paper will show how the change of object effects to the history and future of school and its constructions. The preanalysis shows how the school got pedagogical support from decision of educational policy and pedagogy and didn’t seem to resist the changes related to curriculum and pedagogical tools.
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Dewey Engeström Koistinen Syrjälä
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