Entrepreneurship Education: Known Worlds and New Frontiers

TLDR

The method is a way of thinking and acting built on assumptions and techniques, requiring not just understanding but active use and application. The study explores three traditional teaching worlds and introduces a new frontier of teaching entrepreneurship as a method. The method centers on student practice, offering a portfolio of pedagogies such as business coursework, serious games, design thinking, and reflective practice.

Abstract

We explore three "worlds" that entrepreneurship educators generally teach in and introduce a new frontier where we discuss teaching entrepreneurship as a method. The method is a way of thinking and acting, built on a set of assumptions using a portfolio of techniques to create. It goes beyond understanding, knowing, and talking and requires using, applying, and acting. At the core of the method is the ability for students to practice entrepreneurship and we introduce a portfolio of practice-based pedagogies. These include starting businesses as coursework, serious games and simulations, design-based thinking, and reflective practice.