Instilling the Spirit - Learning Strategies for the New Millennium: The Bachelor of Education in Enterprise Education Program

The mental models, learning styles and world views that people internalized in last century's industrial era no longer serve the demographic, economic, environmental, and social needs of the 21st Century. New learning methodologies and strategies are needed to connect each individual's distinct essence of being with emerging opportunities in today's highly disruptive environment The Institute for Enterprise Education (IEE) has developed such a curriculum that seeks to connect the learner and facilitator with learning opportunities that enhance their capability and connection with emerging opportunities in the external environment This paper. provides a global context for the need to instill the entrepreneurial spirit into every subject field of the educational spectrum; evaluates entrepreneurship as an effective process for interacting with today's highly disruptive global environment; identifies scientific paradigms that provide a systems approach to understand the new rules and the nature of interaction (Science of Complexity); synthesizes the theory behind complexity sciences and the practice of entrepreneurship to provide a learning strategy for each individual (Human Factor); develops an evolutionary path for the Bachelor of Education in Enterprise Education program for new student teachers, a symbiotic partnership between IEE and Brock University's Faculty of Education.