Chapter 6: Educational Leaders Using ABCDE to Explore Human Behaviours in Social Contracts in Relation to Embedded and Disembedded Economies

In this book, thus far I have provided a deliberative method, A Blueprint for Character Development for Evolution (ABCDE) through Assessment for Personal and Social Learning (APSL) to Empower Young Societal Innovators for Equity and Renewal (EYSIER). I have explained these thinking tools are required for a paradigm shift from a narrow curriculum and teaching to the test, to a deliberative method. The deliberative method explores the philosophical, ethical, and psychological foundations of trust to be developed in a co-constructed rational social contract. The social contract enables associations between the force of the common whole, the elected statespeople, the economy and the legislator. The social contract needs to assure all citizens have the opportunity to gain the thinking tools in schools that are required to understand what a good life is for them, and how to live a good life doing their duty and exercising their rights for a happy ending. In this chapter, I begin to consider the professional challenge that economic drivers have become disembedded from the social contract. Horizon 2020 has identified that it is important to enable young people to become drivers of social change and propel entrepreneurial economies where they create jobs, create wealth and to which they feel fully connected. In some parts of Europe, the youth unemployment reaches 50% (Manos Rabemiafara, & Ward, 2014).