Liminality & Educational Entrepreneurship (LEEN) connects the educational world to the entrepreneurial mentality. LEEN acknowledges the culture shock that entrepreneurial thinking still represents for many teachers and pupils. Therefore, to ease this transition from one mindset to another LEEN creates liminal spaces which allows participants to disconnect from old habits, think out of the box and then go back with a set of new ideas to the familiar world. These new ideas help teachers, pupils and policy-makers to design secondary schools as an entrepreneurial ecology where every teacher integrates the entrepreneurial competence in its broad sense in every subject of the curriculum. To achieve this, LEEN creates liminal teams consisting of educators, pupils and entrepreneurs. The LEEN project team for instance consists of five educators and five entrepreneurs. The educators teach either in secondary schools or in teacher training departments. The entrepreneurs are both budding as long-lasting, local or international, cultural or social entrepreneurs. The partners together create liminal spaces such as innovation camps, entrepreneurship clubs, online world cafés, liminal labs, learning snacks to allow teachers and learners to move towards an entrepreneurial mindset. The teacher training departments will compile these outputs in a course on entrepreneurship for teacher trainees and in-service courses, making sure other secondary education teachers can learn from the LEEN experience.
Liminality & Educational Entrepreneurship (LEEN) connects the educational world to the entrepreneurial mentality in its Entrepreneurship cookbook for, in and through education. It addresses two questions: How does one enhance a learner’s ability to think and respond entrepreneurially throughout the curriculum? Which questions does a teacher (trainee) raise when s/he envisions how to embed entrepreneurial competences in her/his teaching practice? To answer the first question LEEN created The Alphabet of Entrepreneurial Learning and Teaching: the L33N Cookbook framed in 26 letters linking features of entrepreneurial learning and teaching to the EntreComp framework and conversations in education Good Practices: linking existing teaching and learning practices to the entrepreneurship competences Entrepreneurship Clubs: creating spaces for exploring entrepreneurial learning activities Learning Grid: a playful and associative discovery narrative into concepts of entrepreneurial learning and teaching For the second question the following are powerful facilitating tools Liminal Labs: Moving from classical educational settings to entrepreneurial learning environments by letting go of old habits, creating moments for alternatives leading to decisions of adoption. Entrepreneur’s Athenaeum: learning from entrepreneurs about entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Ecology: discovering your entrepreneurship/ intrapreneurship in educational settings L33N Blog: stories for educational entrepreneurs L33N Documentary: an invitation to peer-to-peer learning into creating educational entrepreneurial environments These new ideas help teachers, teacher trainees, pupils and policy-makers to design secondary schools as an entrepreneurial ecology where every teacher/ learner integrates the entrepreneurial competences in its broad sense in every subject of the curriculum.