What's Distinctive about Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Education? Threshold Concepts and Expertise

Hatt, Lucy (2016) What's Distinctive about Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Education? Threshold Concepts and Expertise. In: 3E ECSB Enterprise Educators Conference 2016, 11th - 13th May 2016, Leeds, UK.

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Abstract

With the ever growing fashion for all things entrepreneurial, we are perhaps in danger of over using the term and rendering the word’s meaning to be so all-encompassing as to become nothing but a trendy label. Is it time to get clearer about what we really mean when we educate in entrepreneurship? How can we differentiate entrepreneurship manifest in the HE sector in any subject discipline from entrepreneurship as a subject discipline? Recent work (Lackéus, 2015) promoting value creation as an educational philosophy grounded in entrepreneurship would suggest that an entrepreneurial approach may be taken to teaching and learning in any subject discipline in an educational context. Where does that leave HE programmes claiming to teach entrepreneurship? What implications does this have for the curricula of such programmes? Using the theory of threshold concepts and the concept of expertise as bridges between the domains of education and entrepreneurship; this workshop aims to explore the distinctiveness of specialist entrepreneurship programmes, more general Business programmes and other type of HE programmes, using the visual research method of triad comparison. Participants will leave this workshop with a clearer understanding of the potentially unique differentiating characteristics of specialist entrepreneurship programmes, enabling better curricula design and delivery, as well as the improved marketing of such programmes.

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