LibGuides: Let's Be Changemakers: Overview

What is a changemaker educator?

"A changemaker educator understands the importance of empathy, self-identifies as a changemaker, and is committed to working towards the betterment of society through education." - Ashoka U

Books on Changemaking

Be a Changemaker by Laurie Ann Thompson; Bill Drayton (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781481401692
Publication Date: 2014-09-16
Do Good Well by Nina Vasan; Jennifer Przybylo
ISBN: 1118382943
Publication Date: 2013-03-25
Everyone Can Be a Changemaker by Christine Welldon
ISBN: 9781554553570
Publication Date: 2018-09-01
Gamestorming by Dave Gray; Sunni Brown; James Macanufo
ISBN: 9780596804176
Publication Date: 2010-08-17

Changemaking at Miami Dade College

Changemaking on Campus
Whether through classes, co-curricular activities, internships, or special events, MDC takes a broad approach at engaging educators and staff in the spirit of changemaking. Changemakers encourage and celebrate all sorts of positive change, whether big or small, and offer different ways to get involved in changemaking. MDC’s strategy for changemaker education aims to be accessible and inclusive with a clear call to action.
The IDEA Center at Miami Dade College
The IDEA Center is a support network for all Miami Dade College students and community members to make creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial ideas come true. They are committed to building entrepreneurs that change the world and creating changemakers with an entrepreneurial mindset. The IDEA Center partners with diverse business experts, educators, and innovators to ensure MDC students have the support they need to succeed in making their creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial ideas come true.
The Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy at Miami Dade College
The Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy is part of the office of Changemaking Education and Social Innovation. iCED's mission is to transform learning, strengthen democracy and contribute meaningfully to the common good by awakening and empowering students for lifelong civic engagement.
Food Pantries at MDC
The Student Food Pantry provides a means for students to stay focused on their academic studies despite any untimely financial hardships they may be faced with while pursuing a degree.

Changemaking Skills

Current Literature on Social Innovation in Education

Building Change Into University DNA
"Universities are in the middle of many debates about the relevance of higher education. There is pressure to innovate and think entrepreneurially about how to have maximum impact and adapt to the many changes in the higher education environment. Increasingly, students are demanding education that is practical, will prepare them to succeed despite uncertain career paths, and will allow them to align their values with their academic and career choices."
Changemaker in the Curriculum
This case study publication captures twelve
examples of how the University of Northampton staff has incorporated principles of positive social change into their teaching practice during the 2013/2014 academic year.
Everyone a Changemaker
The article highlights social entrepreneur Bill Drayton's ideas on how the world can transition to a place where everyone is a contributing changemaker.

The Significance of Changemaking in Education

"Now, more than ever, students need to move beyond traditional disciplines, taught in traditional ways to rapidly develop skills and adopt new ways of thinking. The opportunity in a post-COVID-19 world is to continue to turn towards communities as part of economic and social rebuilding initiatives, and to ensure that graduates have the passion and confidence to lean-in to complex problem-solving challenges as global citizens."

A Generation of Changemakers

How Higher Education Can Support Local Ecosystems of Innovation
"Since higher education is increasingly playing a leading role in developing the next generation of policy and social entrepreneurs, we must develop a cooperative framework to guide them. Students need a working understanding of what on-the-ground work with neighboring communities looks like, and how to center community needs."

Ashoka - Everyone Can Be a Changemaker

Ashoka, a global organization focused on social innovation in education, identifies and supports the world's leading social entrepreneurs, learns from the patterns in their innovations, and mobilizes a global community that embraces these new frameworks to build an "everyone a changemaker world."

Let's Be Changemakers: Overview