Socialinės ekonomikos fenomeno edukacinės prielaidos ; The educational assumptions of social economy
The aim of this study is to analyze the phenomenon of Social economy in educational context. Scientific study assumption introduced: development of social economy has an impact on safe educational development and more rapid social cohesion. In order to estimate the assumption introduced there were raised seven tasks: 1) to make a theoretical literature analysis on the concept of socio-economic; 2) to explore the socio-economic development in Canada and in other States of America; 3) to explore the importance of socio-economic aspects in the European continent and describe socio-economic development of five European countries - Belgium, Poland, France and Finland; 4) to explore the concept of corporate social responsibility and its' role in the context of social economy; 5) to examine the importance of social responsibility in society; 6) to describe and give examples of a social enterprise and concession; 7) to explore the environment of public-private partnership development. Research methods chosen for this study are analysis of documents, to in deep analyze the concept of social economy and its' role in the countries, and structured and non structured experts' interviews to explore the mechanism and impact of social economy on socioeducational environment. The analysis of the results led to the conclusion that main scientific assumption: development of social economy has an impact on safe educational development and more rapid social cohesion – is confirmed. It was determined that there is no unified definition of Social economy in international environment, that leads to the absence of common continental indicators and progress measures. The analysis of five European countries indicated that the role of government is crucial for social economic development. The term of Social economy is not widely known in Lithuania, but several social economic tools already exist: social business, non for profit organisations, volunteering, private public partnerships, conssesion cooperatives, volunteer initiatives.