Post by Admin on Sept 28, 2014 10:00:09 GMT -5
A social enterprise supporting young adults to take initiative and create viable, sustainable futures for themselves and their communities.
Edventure Frome is part of the International Partnership for Transformative Learning (IPTL), a growing network of European organisations developing new approaches for transformational learning and social entrepreneurship. Alongside with other local partners, we are developing a model of education in which the local community and business is at the heart of its delivery.
Edventure is not a typical school or apprenticeship. There are no exams and people do not leave with a formal qualification. We do not require academic qualifications from applicants. People who want to set themselves up as self-employed, start a business or lead change in their career learn best through practical experience and from others who do similar work.
Learning from Team Challenges
Team challenges enable our apprentices and participants from the wider community to gain transferable employability and enterprise skills, including teamwork and leadership, creative problem solving, lifelong learning, business mindset, confidence and communication. The challenges give people a taste of the reality of running a business while also providing the opportunity for people to clarify their personal direction and values.
Peer-to-peer Action learning
Action learning is an educational process whereby people work and learn together by tackling real issues and reflecting on their actions. Learners acquire knowledge through actions and practice rather than through traditional instruction.
Project-based learning
Making an idea or project happen is like going on an adventure. Driven by a dream, an idea of what is possible, a journey begins that takes people away from what they know and what is comfortable, requiring them to meet inner and outer challenges. They gain skills that will help them on the way, find supporters and draw out the best of themselves – in short, to learn and transform personally. Making a project happen is both a source of practical learning and an impulse for personal development. This kind of learning ties into who people are and what is really important to them.
Self-directed learning
Using a coaching approach, we support people to decide for themselves what to focus their learning on, how to learn in a way that suits their own personal learning style, and how they want to be evaluated. The group of apprentices also contributes to designing their own curriculum based on their experience.
Learning from local & global knowledge
Most mentors and workshop leaders are from the local community and can speak from the learning that they gained working and living in Frome. It is also important to engage with nationally and internationally developing knowledge so we also have contributors from further afield and use online learning platforms to complement local knowledge.
What makes Edventure work are local people and businesses who gift their time and expertise to provide mentoring and opportunities for the apprentices and other young adults.
“Your best pension plan is to strengthen the generation you will depend on in the future and to build a community that can withstand and flourish in times of uncertainty and change.”
For more information visit:
www.edventurefrome.org/