Entrepreneurship in Community and Youth Work

Description

This module explores the role, process and value of entrepreneurship in community and youth work contexts. An assessment of the skills, instruments and attributes required for community and youth entrepreneurship will be undertaken and models of good practice will be reviewed. Module participants will work with a sample social entrepreneurship project to identify how this can drive social change within community and youth work.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Articulate the role and specify the value of entrepreneurship within community and youth work contexts

  2. Debate the advantages and disadvantages of the processes; impacts and outcomes of different models of youth and community entrepreneurship practice in Irish and international contexts

  3. Identify the instruments, skills and attributes of effective entrepreneurship in community and youth contexts

  4. Actively engage with the process of entrepreneurship planning and delivery within a social enterprise; community or youth project

Credits
05
% Coursework 100%