Business Community Engagement for Educational Initiatives

Business Community Engagement for Educational Initiatives

Mikhail Epshtein

Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 325

ISBN13: 9781522569510|ISBN10: 1522569510|EISBN13: 9781522569527|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522587682

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6951-0

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A recently created trend within the past few years is the active involvement of the business community in the development and implementation of various educational programs.

Business Community Engagement for Educational Initiatives provides innovative insights into the implementation of educational programs jointly by businesses, schools, teachers, and educational organizations. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as educational travel, internships, and summer school, this publication is designed for educational administrators, teachers, business leaders, academicians, and researchers seeking coverage on topics centered on business-supported educational programs.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design (AETID) Book Series

Preface

Chapters

Overview of the Phenomenon

Chapter 1

The Sociocultural Outlook for Education and Business Interaction (pages 1-24)

Mikhail Epshtein

The chapter, which is an introduction to the book, discusses language features and ways of describing the phenomenon of cooperation between business and education, and attempts to describe the field of existing projects that require...

Chapter 2

New School Graduate Image: How Do High Tech Business Companies Try to Affect the Education of Modern Youth? Analysis of Online Media Materials (pages 25-50)

Valery Puzyrevsky

In recent years, modern, innovative, transnational businesses are actively trying to influence the state of the education system – from participation in projects of specific schools to influence for global trends in the development...

Entrepreneurs and School: In Search of a Common Language

Chapter 3

Is Education With Passion (Edutainment) Business and/or Education?: The Experience of the KidBurg Interactive Educational City of Professions for Children Project (pages 52-62)

Maximilian Pivovarov

Since 2009, the KidBurg Group has been developing children's educational projects in edutainment format. In total, the network has 18 venues with a total area of more than 33,000 square meters. There are three formats of...

Chapter 4

From the Classroom to the Startup Playground: An Insider's Story (pages 63-77)

Gittel T. Grant

The goal of the author's curriculum is to create a foundational understanding of engineering. Creating this program was a long and bumpy road. The methodology was important. The author has long been a fan of inquiry-based...

Chapter 5

Effect of the Collaboration Between MakerSpace, University, and Elementary Schools on Student STEM Attitudes: Bringing the Maker Movement to Elementary Schools (pages 78-98)

Irina Lyublinskaya, Stephanie Sheehan

This chapter examines the effect of a STEM project developed in collaboration between MakerSpace, a public university, and a Title I elementary school on student STEM attitudes and interests in future STEM careers. There is limited...

Chapter 6

Business Incubator as a Tool for Developing Regional Network Projects of Cooperation Between Schools and Businesses (pages 99-112)

Larisa Matyukhina

The chapter describes the work experience of the Penza region (Russia) in support of innovative development in the region. A lot of work is being done in the region to involve young people in innovative technical and entrepreneurial...

Chapter 7

Education and Business: Prospects for Cooperation – Psychological Analysis of Resources and Lack of Understanding (pages 113-121)

Tatiana Klimova

The chapter is devoted to the research of interaction between business structures and educational institutions. The current state of the problem is described through the analysis of the sociocultural situation, features of...

Cooperation With Business: Views of People From Education

Chapter 8

Involving Adolescents in Getting Acquainted With the Problems of Regional Business: Educational Game Journalist (pages 123-146)

Aleksandra Tesakova, Dmitry Vinogradov, Valery Puzyrevsky

The game Journalist has established itself as one of the complex forms of intensive additional education, as a way of active and thoughtful acquaintance of high school students with the surrounding world. Participating in the game...

Chapter 9

Pedagogical Support of the Educational Choice of Senior Students: The Meetings With Professionals Project (pages 147-180)

Anastasiya Azbel, Leonid Ilyushin

The aim of the chapter is the scientific justification and description of the school technology in supporting educational choice of senior students. The chapter uncovers three main directions: the meaning of the educational prospects...

Chapter 10

Business Case as a Tool for Educating Schoolchildren (pages 181-205)

Elena Kazakova

The practice of working with business cases contradicts all basic school education organizations' canons. Judge for yourself: the authors of the cases do not know initially how to solve them. They often do not even guess which...

Chapter 11

School Week of High Technologies and Technical Entrepreneurship: Experience of the Educational Event (pages 206-234)

Mikhail Epshtein, Alexey Yushkov

For the modern school, the task of organizing the design and research activities of schoolchildren, connected with modern science and high technologies, is very actual. This is difficult to do without the interaction of the school...

Chapter 12

Exploring Business Community Engagement With Educational Institutions Supporting Future Business Graduates (pages 235-246)

Kawtar Tani, Elizabeth Dalzell, Andrew Mock, Anne Steele, Carin Wright

The evolution of technology enables educational institutions to provide innovative ways to support students' learning, and as a result, there is an increasing trend in adopting business innovations such as e-learning solutions...

Schools and Businesses: Resources and the Effects of Network Collaboration

Chapter 13

Reality-Based Learning: Preparing Students for Life – The Experience of Implementing the Model of Swedish Enterprise Education in Russia (SEED Russia) (pages 248-270)

Lyudmila Murgulets, Mats Johansson

This chapter describes the experience of the project on the adaptation of the Swedish model of training through entrepreneurship in the north-west region of Russia. The model was developed by the Swedish Foundation for...

Chapter 14

Participation of German Business Enterprises in Educational Projects in the Field of Non-Formal and School Education (pages 271-283)

Stanislav Skibinski, Ekaterina Skakovskaya

Germany is known as a country of advanced technology and centuries-old traditions of both school and professional and university education. Obviously, this combination forms a special link between business and education. The chapter...

Chapter 15

Education for the Innovative Development of a Region: The Synergy of the Potential of Modern Business, Educators, and Youth (pages 284-306)

Mikhail Epshtein, Sergei Mikhelson

The chapter describes the possible mechanism of supporting the development of education in a region through an organization of interaction between education and businesses into a regional network of schools and their partners...

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