Promoting a Creative Educational Entrepreneurial Approach in Higher Education

Crotty, Yvonne

doi:10.2478/ijtr-2014-0005

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“…Both professionals are using an educational entrepreneurial approach to action research (Crotty, 2014) in their enquiries as they create innovative multimedia resources to transform learning in their work context. Exploration, Understanding, Creating, Transforming are the four key stages in the approach while the action research cycles of plan, act, observe and reflect form an essential part of the process.…”

Section: Research Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Creation of Multimedia Resources to support the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) Coach Education Programme (CEP)

Crotty

D’Arcy

Sweeney

2016

International Journal for Transformative Research

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The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is an Irish amateur sporting and cultural organisation. It represents in excess of 20,000 teams nationwide and is committed to supporting the development of players and coaches through its Coach Education Programme (CEP). A strategic goal of the CEP is to supplement the traditional field based coach education model with a blended learning approach using online multimedia resources. Two eLearning professionals employed by the GAA are seeking to develop online resources to enhance the knowledge and skills of coaches nationwide. Whilst both professionals possess the expertise and relevant technical skills to create high quality resources, their participation in a Masters in Education and Training Management (eLearning) programme in the Institute of Education, Dublin City University (DCU) is ensuring that the multimedia resources will be based on solid pedagogical insights in order to facilitate the organisation’s move to online learning.

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The Creation of Multimedia Resources to support the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) Coach Education Programme (CEP)

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D’Arcy

Sweeney

2016

International Journal for Transformative Research

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“…Yvonne's research seamlessly melds with Margaret's theory as she draws on her fifteen years experience as a secondary school teacher to show how collaboration, cooperative and project--based learning is essential to her pedagogy. (Crotty, 2005(Crotty, , 2011(Crotty, , 2012. Her research emphasises the importance of creating safe environments to ensure meaningful, enjoyable, creative learning abounds.…”

Section: Philosophical Approach To Postgraduate Programmesmentioning

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“…Within these safe educational spaces she connects the head with the heart, marries the sense and soul (Wilber, 1988) to combine a constructivist, behaviourist, cognitive pedagogical approach that avoids a fragmented learning experience as she inspires others to bring their ideas to fruition. Her interest in the use of multi--modal (sound, video, images and text) forms of communication and expression to represent educational knowledge and her belief in the power of visual methods (Crotty, 2005), narrative accounts and online journaling led to her doctoral research, in which she clarified what it means to have an educationally entrepreneurial spirit (Crotty, 2012). Yvonne believes that entrepreneurship is not only about setting up a business for economic gain.…”

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Researching Our Own Practice: An Individual Creative Process and a Dialogic-Collaborative Process: Self Knowledge is the Beginning of Wisdom. Krishnamurti (1991, p. 196)

Farren

Crotty

2014

International Journal for Transformative Research

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In this paper, we explain how our individual PhD enquiries (Farren, 2006; Crotty, 2012) have informed the philosophical underpinnings of our postgraduate programmes. The approach used to ensure validity and rigour in the research process is presented. We report on the development of the International Research Centre for e-Innovation and Workplace Learning and its collaboration in European projects such as Pathway to Inquiry Based Learning, Inspiring Science Education (ISE) and the African based Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI) project Leadership Development in ICT and the Knowledge Society. Our claim is that researching our own practice can be a transformative experience for the practitioner-researcher who is committed to generating knowledge that has personal, professional and social value.

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“…In order to guide the creation of the video to show how volunteering can inspire solidarity among Irish and Romanian communities, an entrepreneurial methodology (Crotty, 2014) was employed. Action research is a form of research that is democratic, organic, collaborative and driven by values that promote the social good (Wood, 2012).…”

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“…The following 3 characteristics define the Educational Entrepreneurial research approach (Crotty, 2014).…”

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The co-creation of a video to inspire humanitarianism: How an Educational Entrepreneurial approach inspired humanitarian workers to be mindfully innovative whilst working with technology.

Crotty¹,

Kilboy²

2015

International Journal for Transformative Research

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This paper demonstrates the value of embracing digital technology in order to effect positive change in a non-governmental (NGO) charity organisation, in this case the Irish Charity Crosscause. The outcome of the research was the creation of a charity video, Crosscause: Making a Difference, to showcase humanitarian work in Ireland and Romania with a view to inspiring others to contribute in some capacity to this cause. Video is an important medium to provide connections with a wider audience, as it gives humanitarian workers and marginalised communities an opportunity to tell their story by making a compelling and evocative case to others. Visual media not only makes connections with an audience, but can also positively challenge people to consider what is happening in the world around them. The research process incorporated an entrepreneurial methodology - an Educational Entrepreneurial approach to action research-with four steps: Exploring, Understanding, Creating and Transforming, which is designed to guide practitioner-researchers as they embrace digital technology to resolve an identified need in a workplace context, including people in disadvantaged settings. In this research, there was an identified need for a charity video to link the giving in Ireland to the receiving in Romania, so that viewers could see the tangible effects of their contributions. A further aim of the research was to illustrate how volunteering can inspire solidarity among Irish and Romanian communities.

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Promoting a Creative Educational Entrepreneurial Approach in Higher Education

Cited by 13 publications

References 8 publications

The Creation of Multimedia Resources to support the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) Coach Education Programme (CEP)

The Creation of Multimedia Resources to support the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) Coach Education Programme (CEP)

Researching Our Own Practice: An Individual Creative Process and a Dialogic-Collaborative Process: Self Knowledge is the Beginning of Wisdom. Krishnamurti (1991, p. 196)

The co-creation of a video to inspire humanitarianism: How an Educational Entrepreneurial approach inspired humanitarian workers to be mindfully innovative whilst working with technology.

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