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Introducing Entrepreneurship in a School Setting - Entrepreneurial Learning as the Entrance Ticket

Authors:

Karin Axelsson, Maria Mårtensson

Research groups:

Value-Driven Innovation and Foresight
Information Design

Publication Type:

Conference/Workshop Paper

Venue:

International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Developments (ICEIRD)

Abstract

The prevailing economic world order relies on financial progress and business development, and entrepreneurship is seen as an important means to achieve this. To inspire the development of an entrepreneurial mindset among citizens, public initiatives through education has improved and consequently entrepreneurship education is booming. Positioning our research within the discussion regarding entrepreneurship as a broader societal phenomenon, our contribution lies within a much less researched context – entrepreneurship in the lower secondary school. In this context we focus on the teachers’ perspective to investigate how they approach entrepreneurship and what they actually do when teaching it. Our results indicate that there has been a change in terminology from entrepreneurship to entrepreneurial learning. Furthermore, when teaching entrepreneurial learning the approach includes real-life connected projects, collaboration with the surrounding community and practising entrepreneurial skills. Working with entrepreneurial learning has in this context resulted in enhancing the motivation of pupils as well as a changed perspective on teaching and learning. Our theoretical contribution lies within the literature on entrepreneurship in a wider societal context and more specifically the research field of entrepreneurship education and its forms of expression when introduced in a school setting. In addition, we provide a conceptual model of entrepreneurship education in lower secondary education.

Bibtex

@inproceedings{Axelsson4228,
author = {Karin Axelsson and Maria M{\aa}rtensson},
title = {Introducing Entrepreneurship in a School Setting - Entrepreneurial Learning as the Entrance Ticket},
month = {June},
year = {2015},
booktitle = {International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Developments (ICEIRD)},
url = {http://www.ipr.mdu.se/publications/4228-}
}