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How to Become an Entrepreneurial Teacher Driving a shift in the way we think about entrepreneurial and teacher education, this book invites teachers to think and act as entrepreneurial innovators and lead meaningful change in everyday school contexts. How to Become an Entrepreneurial Teacher takes teachers through theory, entrepre neurial techniques, reflective practice, and learning experiences, which can be applied to schools from K-12. Adopting an entrepreneurial ethos, orientated towards action for making change happen, this book illustrates pathways to trans form the everyday professional work of teachers. It introduces teachers to entre preneurial thinking,explainstheb enefits of this approach to teaching practice, and outlines how this way of thinking can influence and promote innovation and change across a school. The final chapters present case studies of entrepreneurial teaching in practice, sharing the experiences of both new and established teachers who have adopted this approach. This book will inspire and empower teachers to enact change for the benefit of their students and is essential reading for teachers and school leaders at all stages of their career. James P. Davis is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He currently serves as a Non-Executive Director of Kairos Community Col lege, a highly innovative, independent special assistance school for students in grades 10–12 that promotes student and teacher autonomy. How to Become an Entrepreneurial Teacher Being Innovative, Leading Change James P. Davis Designed cover image: © Getty Images First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 James P. Davis The right of James P. Davis to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Davis, James P. (Lecturer in teacher education), author. Title: How to become an entrepreneurial teacher : being innovative, leading change / James P. Davis. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2022030073 (print) | LCCN 2022030074 (ebook) | ISBN 9781032259291 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032259284 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003285694 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Teacher effectiveness. | Teaching, Freedom of. | Teaching--Methodology. | Creative thinking. | Entrepreneurship. Classification: LCC LB1025.3 .D389 2023 (print) | LCC LB1025.3 (ebook) | DDC 371.102--dc23/eng/20220921 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022030073 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022030074 ISBN: 978-1-032-25929-1 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-25928-4 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-28569-4 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003285694 Typeset in Bembo by Taylor & Francis Books Contents List of figures vii List of tables viii Author Biography ix Contributor Biographies x Foreword xiii PART I Introduction 1 1 Why Become an Entrepreneurial Teacher? 3 PART II How Teachers Learn Entrepreneurial Thinking 11 2 Embracing Risk and Productive Failure 13 3 Harnessing Values and Creating Value 23 4 Transformation Through Reflection 33 PART III How to Influence School Innovation 45 5 Creating Ideas for Innovation 47 6 Collaboration, Engagement, and Problem Solving 55 7 Teachers as Leaders 63 8 Leading Through Innovative Ecosystems 73 vi Contents PART IV Case Studies: Being Innovative, Leading Change 85 9 Innovation Infusion 87 Case Study 9.1: Entrepreneurial or Standardised Teacher: A Beginner’s Perspective 87 Case Study 9.2: Science Integrated with Entrepreneurial and Design Thinking 90 Case Study 9.3: Entrepreneurial Thinking in My First Year as Teacher 92 10 Perpetual Innovation 95 Case Study 10.1: Developing Student Creativity: What I Learned by Letting Go 95 Case Study 10.2: Leading Innovation in Teaching Chinese and Asia Literacy 98 Case Study 10.3: Innovation in Early Childhood: Through Children’s Perspectives 101 Case Study 10.4: Learning Through Productive Failure 103 11 Innovation Ecosystems in Motion 107 Case Study 11.1: The Australian Innovation Ecosystem K-12 107 Case Study 11.2: Creating Value with a School Partnerships Framework 111 Case Study 11.3: Innovation, Quality, and Leadership in Early Childhood Education 114 Case Study 11.4: Young Change Agents 117 Case Study 11.5: Multiple Partnerships and Complex Change 119 PART V Making It Happen 123 12 Next Steps, Next Practice 125 Index 129 Figures 4.1 Reflective Learning for Entrepreneurial Thinking 33 4.2 Core Reflection and Core Affect 37 6.1 Growing Collaboration Networks 56 6.2 Solution-Based Design Process 59 7.1 Leadership and Limits of Discretion 65 7.2 Model of Functional Leadership 68 8.1 Education Ecosystems 74 Tables 1.1 Entrepreneurial Thinking in Action and Teaching Capabilities 5 11.1 Context-Based School Partnerships Framework 113 11.2 Value Creation via Partnerships 114 Author Biography James P. Davis is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He is an entrepreneurial academic with publications across health sciences, science education, and entrepreneurial education, and industry experiences across defence, health, education, and business. He currently serves as a Non-Executive Director of Kairos Community College, a highly innovative, independent special assistance school for students in grades 10–12 that promotes student and teacher autonomy. James’s research reflects socio-cultural-emotive perspectives in teaching and learning where he establishes connectivity across STEM and entrepre neurial education. He is a contributing author to the Springer volume Exploring Emotions, Aesthetics and Wellbeing in Science Education Research, the Routledge volume Emotions in Late Modernity, and the Edward Elgar volume How to Become an Entrepreneurship Educator. James is also an Associate Editor for the international journal Research in Science Education. Over the past five years James has also developed a MOOC, Teaching Entre preneurial Thinking, reaching more than 13,500 learners across 142 countries. At QUT he has taught entrepreneurial thinking and leadership to more than 3,600 preservice teachers across early childhood, primary, and secondary years.
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