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Business and Ethics Teachers' and Pupils' Training Day

16 November, 2007, Museum in the Docklands, London

A conference of teachers and 40 students during Enterprise Week at the Museum in the Docklands promoted co-operative and social enterprise in the context of the history of slavery and the fight against it. There were small group interviews of a local historian focusing on trade and sugar, a young entrepreneur, a local campaigner, the director of the Tower Hamlets Co-op Development Agency and a social enterprise school worker. The children presented the findings of their interviews.

The author of the book, The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational (Pluto Books/Orient Longman, 2006). gave a slide show of the history of the company and the Docks and how it affected world history. The training team 1st Questions, sponsored by East of England Co-op, ran sessions on how to set-up young people co-ops in schools www.ipswich-norwich.coop/data/usercontentroot/incs/activities_and_events...

The young people's feedback included 20 thought the day very useful and 9 useful; 12 really liked the day, 12 liked the day; 13 will definitely do something back at school, 9 will probably do something.

This is being followed-up by one of the schools looking at how it can embed co-operative enterprise with a global framework into its citizenship work.

Michael Newman, Humanities Education Centre, November 2007

For further information, visit: http://www.citizenship-pieces.org.uk

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