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Lessons from the Emotivate Project for Increasing Take-Up of Big Society and Responsible Capitalism Initiatives

Lessons from the Emotivate Project for Increasing Take-Up of Big Society and Responsible Capitalism Initiatives

Jonathan Bishop
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 10
ISBN13: 9781466621220|ISBN10: 1466621222|EISBN13: 9781466621237
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2122-0.ch019
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Bishop, Jonathan. "Lessons from the Emotivate Project for Increasing Take-Up of Big Society and Responsible Capitalism Initiatives." Handbook of Research on Didactic Strategies and Technologies for Education: Incorporating Advancements, edited by Paolo M. Pumilia-Gnarini, et al., IGI Global, 2013, pp. 208-217. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2122-0.ch019

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Bishop, J. (2013). Lessons from the Emotivate Project for Increasing Take-Up of Big Society and Responsible Capitalism Initiatives. In P. Pumilia-Gnarini, E. Favaron, E. Pacetti, J. Bishop, & L. Guerra (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Didactic Strategies and Technologies for Education: Incorporating Advancements (pp. 208-217). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2122-0.ch019

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Bishop, Jonathan. "Lessons from the Emotivate Project for Increasing Take-Up of Big Society and Responsible Capitalism Initiatives." In Handbook of Research on Didactic Strategies and Technologies for Education: Incorporating Advancements, edited by Paolo M. Pumilia-Gnarini, et al., 208-217. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2122-0.ch019

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Abstract

Cooperation and respect for different opinions have been considered prime didactic goals in environmental projects which encourage citizen participation (Tsevreni, 2011). Through the realisation of the UK Government’s Big Society project, families, individuals, charities, and communities can come together to solve problems through galvanising, catalysing, prompting, encouraging, and agitating for community engagement and social renewal (Cameron, 2009). Environmental activism has long been touted as a necessary addition to the education system (Sanera & Shaw, 1999), and this chapter shows how the Big Society was made a reality before Conservative Party Leader David Cameron first presented it. However, as it usual in British politics, despite being in keeping with the aspirations of the other parties, partisanism is holding it back. For instance the Labour Party believes in “joining the forces of cooperation with competition” yet opposes the Big Society using superficial reasoning. Equally, the Co-operative Party, which is affiliated to Labour, appear more interested in attacking the Conservatives past record on cooperativism than engaging with them to further the cooperative movement. On its own, this shows that the Big Society, where people take action outside of government is needed, especially when one considers that Labour Governments rarely get anti-statist cooperative measures through without the support of other parties, such as the Conservatives in the case of the Cooperative Trust Schools in England. The Big Society therefore needs to be market-led on the basis of responsible capitalism rather than government-led such as via state socialist or state capitalism.

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