I was reminded via Facebook, today, of a posting on his blog back in February 2009, by Mike Chitty:
I have been banging on about enterprise as being a process for the emergence of identity for a long time now. Enterprise provides the (nearly) perfect vehicle for us to explore our talents and passions and have the results of our efforts judged in real time by real people.
In the link that Mike provided (which I urge you to follow), he writes:
Enterprise is not about business and entrepreneurship.
It is not about premises, finances, business plans and swots.
It is a process for human development.
It is a way of exploring:
- who I am,
- what my potentials are/might be, and
- the kind of future that I could create.
It is way of living – of becoming.
Enterprise can be a catalyst, a framework, for the emergence of identity.
I find this a near perfect expression of conductive education and working with adults. Perhaps I should elaborate further - and on how Paces has sought, quite coincidentally, to implement this in our adult programme.
I have mentioned Mike's blog before. If you use the 'search' tool here on this blog to the right, below the 'Live Traffic Feed', by setting the 'Select search engine" to "Paces blog search" and search on Chitty, you will be presented with a list of my previous postings mentioning Mike.
Thanks for the reminder, Mike.
