Social Entrepreneurship and Social Inclusion Processes, Practices, and Prospects /

• Main Author: Kummitha, Rama Krishna Reddy (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Entrepreneurship.; Educational technology.; Development economics.; Economic development.; Social change.; Social service.; Economics.; Development Economics.; Development and Social Change.; Social Work and Community Development.; Technology and Digital Education.

This book argues that embeddedness and community participation bring unique propositions for social entrepreneurship to foster social inclusion. It uncovers the role of local knowledge and grassroots level innovations to create necessary environment for the positive social change to roll. Social ent...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Social Entrepreneurship, Community Participation and Embeddedness
• 3. Barefoot College - Philosophy and Governance
• 4. Barefoot approach and its practice
• 5. Implications of the barefoot approach on the rural poor
• 6. Barefoot as a social enterprise
• 7. Conclusion.