François Taddéi
Jul 2010
France
François Taddéi is breaking away from the elitist, top-down, and conservative model of the French education system that fails to prepare students to innovate and meet the complex challenges of a changing world. François is reinventing high school and college science education and laying the ground...
François Taddéi
IDEE François Taddei réinvente l’éducation scientifique pour mieux préparer les jeunes aux défis complexes d’un monde en évolution et pour pallier les insuffisances du système d’enseignement peu efficace, inégalitaire et cloisonné. Son approche promeut l’interdisciplinarité, la collaboration et la...
Jul 2010
France
François Taddéi is breaking away from the elitist, top-down, and conservative model of the French education system that fails to prepare students to innovate and meet the complex challenges of a changing world. François is reinventing high school and college science education and laying the ground...
"Any young person, can have the power to express love and respect in action."
At the 2013 Ashoka U Exchange, Bill Drayton, in his keynote speech at the Exchange, shares his vision for the future of higher education. About the Exchange he said; "This is not a few people talking and everyone else listening. This is an everyone a changemaker meeting where everyone is here to...
Bringing you a certificate of social entrepreneurship: Ashoka Youth Venture & StraighterLine
In an increasingly fast-paced world, many of us are looking to learn the skills of the future. Increasingly, we are called to step into entrepreneural roles to help create better realities. Ashoka's Youth Venture and StraighterLines have partnered to provide future social entrepreneurs with the...
Top quality, peer-reviewed online education & skills training for free! Winner of the World Innovation Summit Education award
Mike a serial social entrepreneur, Ashoka Fellow, and Harvard MBA who has previously created successful internet-based companies in telecoms and finance as well as online education, has had the challenges of accessing education imprinted on him from an early age. The first of his family to attend...
The Women Saving Higher Education
Higher education may be notoriously resistant to change, but at this point, the writing's on the whiteboard, so to speak. Change is inevitable. Some of our most ambitious entrepreneurs and deep thinkers are taking aim--challenging the entire financial model, delivery system and value proposition of...
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Announcing the 2013 Ashoka U – Cordes Innovation Award Winners
As more and more colleges and universities seek to launch and grow social entrepreneurship programs on campus, there is an even greater need to share expertise, challenges, and inspiration for creating positive social and environmental impact. The Ashoka U Exchange, hosted at the University of San...
Scouting the Sweet Spot Between Purpose and Profit
Editor's note: This is the eighth post in a new series highlighting some of the most high-impact and replicable innovations in social entrepreneurship education through the lens of the 2013 Ashoka U – Cordes Innovation Awards winners. This post was written by Carolyn Meyer, director of professional...
Social Entrepreneurship Is Bringing Purpose To Higher Education
Higher education in the United States is facing a crisis. The rising cost of tuition is often how this crisis is defined, but when we listen carefully to the discourse, a different issue emerges: students, parents and employers are all expressing doubt about the value of an undergraduate degree. In...
How Does Cognitive Dissonance Turn Students Into Leaders?
It isn’t always easy to see the limitations of our own points of view. Ideally, college helps to lay bare the assumptions we don’t even know we make. Cognitive dissonance is fundamental to learning, and, in every course, students should bump into something unexpected or unsettling. The question is...