Inventing home education as a social enterprise
Heritage-led rural regeneration
Joanna Stanberry, PhD Student, University of Cumbria
Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability
Institute of Industry, Business, and Leadership
Institute for Science and Environment
Transformations (as a normative aim) can be defined as fundamental changes that create new patterns of interactions and outcomes that transition societies to sustainable human and planetary systems. Novel applications of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CNH) unique to rural places are increasingly seen as a key driver to boost competitiveness and shift communities to sustainable development pathways. The RURITAGE project emerged to re-envision heritage-led rural regeneration to go beyond cultural and heritage-related tourism, and as a response to dominant urban-focused research. The kind of entrepreneurship that leverages CNH is captured in the RURITAGE paradigm, but it is not new. In the English Lake District, the Victorian educationalist Charlotte Mason (1842-1923) created a reform movement and social enterprise based on home education. By leveraging the CNH of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Ruskin and the fells that formed their backdrop, Mason’s entrepreneurial activities and emancipatory methods created a new topography of community engagement. In this initial abductive thematic analysis Mason’s work is connected to the RURITAGE Community Capitals Framework (CCF). The CCF describes how investment in one capital can translate to another. By integrating Mason’s concepts and practise with the RURITAGE learnings, a framework for heritage-led rural regeneration specifically targeted at sustainability transformations emerges.
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Feedback provided by UoC Professors: Angela Anthonisz, David Murphy, Heather Prince, and Richard Little, and colleague Janis Balda (Senior Lecturer, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
Many thanks to the Charlotte Mason community who provided all the help and guidance to learn Mason’s method from the source.
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