A holistic social constructionist perspective to enterprise education

Constructing futures ; a social constructionist perspective on foresight methodology

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the relationship between a particular epistemological perspective and foresight methodology. We draw on a body of social theory concerned with the way that meaning is produced and assimilated by society; specifically, the social construction of knowledge, which is distinguished from its near-neighbour constructivism by its focus on inter-subjectivity. We ...

A Social Constructionist Epistemology

Enterprise Social Networks: A Business Model Perspective

Enterprise Social Networks continue to be adopted by organisations looking to increase collaboration between employees, customers and industry partners. Offering a varied range of features and functionality, this technology can be distinguished by the underlying business models that providers of this software deploy. This study identifies and describes the different business models through an a...

MaterialSim: A Constructionist Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Engineering Education

For the past two decades, the engineering education community has started to come to terms with an unfortunate paradox: despite a view of engineering as the ultimate design profession, very little actual experience in design is incorporated into undergraduate engineering curricula. Recently, pressured by decreasing enrollment, unmotivated students, and an avalanche of new demands from the job m...

Education, Enterprise Culture and the Entrepreneurial Self: A Foucauldian Perspective

The notion of ‘enterprise culture’ emerged in the United Kingdom as a central motif in political thought under Margaret Thatcher's administration. The notion represented a profound shift away from the Keynesian welfare state to a deliberate attempt at cultural restructuring and engineering based upon the neo-liberal model of the entrepreneurial self a shift characterised as a moving from a ‘cul...