Season 3, Episode 5: A Cross-institutional, Community-engaged Civic Innovation Course

Episode 5 October 07, 2019 00:14:00
Season 3, Episode 5: A Cross-institutional, Community-engaged Civic Innovation Course
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Season 3, Episode 5: A Cross-institutional, Community-engaged Civic Innovation Course

Oct 07 2019 | 00:14:00

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Dr. Catherine Pearl

Dr. Catherine Pearl teaches in the Department of Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation at Mount Royal University. She spent nearly twenty years in industry and ran a registered charity that operated as a social enterprise. She holds a PhD in Social Work from the University of Calgary. Professor Pearl designs teaching and learning experiences that are interactive and experiential. Over the past two years Professor Pearl has designed and piloted 3 of the 9 courses that comprise MRU’s minor in Social Innovation: Facilitating Social Innovation, Social Enterprising, and Civic Innovation. Her recent research explores social entrepreneurship among millennials, case studies on social enterprise, and inter-professional practice and perceptions between social work and business students.

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