ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the thinking behind the establishment of an innovative partnership between the Co-operative Education Trust Scotland (CETS) and the University of Aberdeen designed to embed co-operative, mutual, and employee-owned models of enterprise into tertiary curricula. It explains the strategic context for the partnership and the practical and intellectual challenges encountered in putting the co-operative principle of education, training, and information into practice within the university setting. One could argue that co-operative education should also offer the option of learning through co-operative pedagogies. The chapter reviews our practical experiences of developing learning and teaching materials about co-operatives, and attempt to connect these to co-operative education more broadly. The new educational resources had to synthesize the wide-ranging information on co-operatives, mutuals and employee-ownership in such a way as to engage students from different disciplinary backgrounds.
