Start Date

6-6-2013 1:45 PM

End Date

6-6-2013 2:55 PM

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The service-learning students from three teachers courses group in business school try to provide solution to raise up the efficiency and at the same time ease the heavy management burden of the deaf people bakery. There are six subjects in this “social business plan & execution competition”, as an innovation kind of service-learning, for this deaf people bakery firm. And the outputs of social inclusion in this innovative Service-Learning courses group program, for the Deaf people social enterprise, are: 1) Social inclusion from the student’s perspective: Most of the students have high identification with the deaf people and their perseverance in manage a social enterprise, including exchange students from China. And the students feel greatly empowered when they do the “social business plan & execution competition” for the deaf people social enterprise 2) Social inclusion from those new customers’ perspective: New one-year customers “inside” the University Campus, who order 12-months hand-made cookies from the deaf people sale project of “Dream come true” 3) Social inclusion from those new customers’ perspective: New one-year customers “outside” the University Campus , who order 12-months hand-made cookies from the deaf people sale project of “Dream come true” 4) Extended social inclusion from interaction of other Asia deaf people nonprofit organization (NPO): Asia deaf people nonprofit organization (including deaf people Christian Church)--“empowerment through employment” strategy forum 5) Extended social inclusion from interaction of other people through radio interview. 6) Extended social inclusion from deaf people of the exciting new experience of being competition judge of “innovative food material application” (combining the indigenous tribe community fresh plum and bakery product) etc. The suggestion of this paper is: in this innovative kind of Service-Learning for social enterprise of the disadvantaged group, the solution of helping the deaf people bakery firm can be more possibly achieved through an a pedagogy of social business plan competition (especially for college students of business school), if the teachers of Service-Learning has already accumulated a lasting collaboration of deep trust and partnership relation with the disadvantaged nonprofit organization or social enterprise which will be served by the college students.

Recommended Citation

Chen, C. C. (2013, June). Social inclusion for the deaf people social enterprise through students social business plan & execution competition of innovation service-learning: A case study of deaf people bakery & university courses group in Business School, Providence University, Taiwan. Paper presented at the 4th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning: Service-Learning as a Bridge from Local to Global: Connected world, Connected future, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China.

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Jun 6th, 1:45 PM Jun 6th, 2:55 PM

Social inclusion for the deaf people social enterprise through students social business plan & execution competition of innovation service-learning : A case study of deaf people bakery & university courses group in Business School, Providence University, Taiwan

The service-learning students from three teachers courses group in business school try to provide solution to raise up the efficiency and at the same time ease the heavy management burden of the deaf people bakery. There are six subjects in this “social business plan & execution competition”, as an innovation kind of service-learning, for this deaf people bakery firm. And the outputs of social inclusion in this innovative Service-Learning courses group program, for the Deaf people social enterprise, are: 1) Social inclusion from the student’s perspective: Most of the students have high identification with the deaf people and their perseverance in manage a social enterprise, including exchange students from China. And the students feel greatly empowered when they do the “social business plan & execution competition” for the deaf people social enterprise 2) Social inclusion from those new customers’ perspective: New one-year customers “inside” the University Campus, who order 12-months hand-made cookies from the deaf people sale project of “Dream come true” 3) Social inclusion from those new customers’ perspective: New one-year customers “outside” the University Campus , who order 12-months hand-made cookies from the deaf people sale project of “Dream come true” 4) Extended social inclusion from interaction of other Asia deaf people nonprofit organization (NPO): Asia deaf people nonprofit organization (including deaf people Christian Church)--“empowerment through employment” strategy forum 5) Extended social inclusion from interaction of other people through radio interview. 6) Extended social inclusion from deaf people of the exciting new experience of being competition judge of “innovative food material application” (combining the indigenous tribe community fresh plum and bakery product) etc. The suggestion of this paper is: in this innovative kind of Service-Learning for social enterprise of the disadvantaged group, the solution of helping the deaf people bakery firm can be more possibly achieved through an a pedagogy of social business plan competition (especially for college students of business school), if the teachers of Service-Learning has already accumulated a lasting collaboration of deep trust and partnership relation with the disadvantaged nonprofit organization or social enterprise which will be served by the college students.