Addressing the Pre/Post-university Pedagogy of Entrepreneurship Coherent with Learning Theories

Kakouris, Alexandros; Morselli, Daniele

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-48802-4_3

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“…As a corollary to the present findings, it has to be noted that structures like identity or the subjective norm are enduring and rooted to local culture. Hence, they are not expected to change through customary entrepreneurial courses demanding customized pedagogies to attain change (Kakouris and Morselli, 2020) . Given the present results on the inter-dependence among the constructs under the influence of culture, policy-making on entrepreneurship has to reflect upon the educational methods and the objectives of modern entrepreneurship education in specific cultural contexts and modify to ensure the most effective outcomes.…”

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Cultural traits of entrepreneurship education: a cross-national study

Fleck

Kakouris

Winkel

2020

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Purpose This study aims to develop insights on how national culture, gender and field of study can influence the impact of entrepreneurship education toward the development of entrepreneurial intention. Design/methodology/approach The entrepreneurship education project gathered data from over 18,000 undergraduate student responses, spanning over 70 countries and 400 universities. The sample used in this research examined eight countries with significantly different national cultures, while a quantitative analysis of a sample of n = 5,033 responses was performed. Beyond correlation analysis, a hierarchical multiple regression model is implemented for intention along with moderation analysis. Findings The statistical analysis reveals robust correlations among several entrepreneurial concepts and national cultural indices. As expected, national culture interweaves with all entrepreneurial concepts and more significantly for students of socially oriented disciplines. Gendera and field of the study appear moderators of causal relationships between entrepreneurial constructs. Exerting a strong influence by culture, entrepreneurial identity appears the most significant explanator of intention. Overall, the emergent pattern suggests entrepreneurship is intentional, but in a socially justified and accepted manner closely related to local cultural norms and institutions. Research limitations/implications Implications pertain to research for entrepreneurial intention and to educators and educational bodies concerning their goal setting for entrepreneurial programs and appropriate scheduling of effective pedagogies. Originality/value The study exploits a large data set from eight countries (Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Spain and USA) which permits systematic quantitative search for the influence of culture on the impact of entrepreneurship education. Cross-national studies of entrepreneurship education and the effect of national culture have been scant in literature – a research gap the study responds to. The inclusion of both developing and developed countries contributes in a novel way to a unique understanding of the influence of culture on entrepreneurial concepts through education.

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Cultural traits of entrepreneurship education: a cross-national study

Fleck

Kakouris

Winkel

2020

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“…Another tendency of entrepreneurship education is to leak from the formal education to the non-formal and informal learning domains, supporting extracurricular entrepreneurship education, which is often materialized, by also embracing other stakeholders in entrepreneurial ecosystems (incubators, accelerators, and others) in the surroundings of the educational institutes [31]. As a result, entrepreneurial courses may pursue different pedagogies [32] amidst other perspectives such as andrago-heutagogical approaches [33,34] or signature pedagogies [35,36]. Therefore, entrepreneurship education is a research field under development in tandem with entrepreneurship itself.…”

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Entrepreneurship as a Career Option within Education: A Critical Review of Psychological Constructs

Kakouris,

Tampouri,

Kaliris

et al. 2023

Education Sciences

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Entrepreneurship is now suggested as a competence not only for starting new businesses but for employability and well-being as well. Envisaged as a career option, entrepreneurship is now a new concern in the field of career counseling psychology. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is about starting new businesses or being self-employed, but nowadays, it is also considered a competence for employability and well-being. Systematically nurtured in educational settings for more than two decades, the entrepreneurial intention of students has become a specific construct for educators to assess the impact of entrepreneurial courses. The present article seeks to critically review the psychological constructs, models, and approaches that have been used in educational settings to explain the formation of entrepreneurial intention. The majority of relevant studies has been found to be quantitative, reproducing in a positivist manner the construct of self-efficacy and the theory of reasoned action. Some constructs and approaches that have been extensively used in the career counseling discipline seem to be under-researched in the entrepreneurship education field. In this line of research, the potential contribution of sources on self-efficacy and dysfunctional career beliefs or motives should be examined. Additionally, theoretical paradigms like constructionist-narrative-based career counseling or positive psychology and other newer theories (e.g., happenstance learning theory) might be useful in investigating several influences on career decision making for entrepreneurship. Based on the current findings from the literature, a research agenda is proposed for future research in the field in order to achieve better connections between entrepreneurship and career theories and to shed light on the complex process of students’ entrepreneurial career decisions.

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“…As many scholars agree (e.g. Neck and Corbett 2018) the high pressure from educational policies and the high demand from worldwide populations to be educated entrepreneurially led to a dramatic expansion of entrepreneurship education without the temporal convenience for educators to engage in learning theories (Kakouris and Morselli 2020) and the pedagogical pretensions of this new type of education.…”

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Engaging Literature Students in Entrepreneurship: Could use of art Help?

Kakouris¹,

Liargovas²

2022

ECIE

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Entrepreneurship educators seek innovative teaching in entrepreneurship in order to engage youth populations in venturing by instilling them the entrepreneurial mindset whilst the contemporary progression of entrepreneurship education encompasses its embedded form to other discipline curricula. At a Greek central university, such courses are massively attended by foreign language and literature students during the last decade. In the present implementation, literature students were encouraged to either perform the usual business plan or to analyse a piece of art for their entrepreneurial courses’ project. Pre/post measurements (N=64) for entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurial success beliefs and entrepreneurial intention were conducted in order to compare the two groups. T-tests indicate that changes to the entrepreneurial constructs do not significantly vary between the groups. Through a binary logistic regression model, it was found that art-projects were chosen by those who rely more on personal abilities for the success of their initiatives. The article concludes that introducing art in entrepreneurial teaching conforms with some curricular contexts, like literature, affects students in a similar manner with the business plan, but also confronts different learning needs and enables critical thinking and personal autonomy on entrepreneurial meaning-making. The present study offers quantitative insights on how art-based entrepreneurship education could be employed in classrooms compounded with interactive lectures offering new perspectives for enriching the entrepreneurial teaching toolbox.

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Addressing the Pre/Post-university Pedagogy of Entrepreneurship Coherent with Learning Theories

Cited by 17 publications

References 76 publications

Cultural traits of entrepreneurship education: a cross-national study

Cultural traits of entrepreneurship education: a cross-national study

Entrepreneurship as a Career Option within Education: A Critical Review of Psychological Constructs

Engaging Literature Students in Entrepreneurship: Could use of art Help?

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