Social Innovation in Education

The purpose of this course is catalyse and refine your innate skills for social change in the context of the current, local education system. We believe that there are three skill types – knowledge, skills, and megaskills. Knowledge is traditionally assessed through tests or formal evaluations. Skills are developed through practice and assessed by demonstration to other people with those skills. Similarly, Megaskills, things like creativity, leadership, and social and emotional intelligence that are necessarily to be a social innovator, are nurtured in the context of social experiences and assessed by inner reflection and peer evaluation.

This course is designed to provide you with context-based learning experiences to hone your megaskills associated with changemaking. We will help you identify what megaskills are most relevant to your interests and how you can use them in solving the world’s social problems.

 By the end of this course, you will have developed a vision for the ideal education system in your community, identified a root cause of a problem in your community’s education system preventing it from reaching your vision, and created a plan of action for addressing this root cause and solving the problem. You will also have developed a portfolio of evidence of your changemaking capacities that can be shared with others, which will include a living transcript of specific changemaking megaskills that you have developed throughout the course and your life.

For more detailed information, please contact Laura White