Imagine there’s no competitions – a detox re-description of entrepreneurship and...
This is an attempt to see entrepreneurship and its education in a new way, beyond taken for granted views. Six less typical perspectives will be shared, based on a decade of action research in entrepreneurial education.
Retrofit reflection – a new way to capture on-the-job learning
It first seemed like a failure to guide my students' actions. But unexpectedly me and my students had stumbled upon a new and innovative...
Reflective assessment in entrepreneurial education – some challenges and a stairway...
Last week I was in France to meet research colleagues in entrepreneurial education from around Europe at the yearly 3E conference. One of the...
Want to be part of a study on value creation pedagogy...
A month ago something rare happened to me. I got research funding for doing exactly the research I want to do myself. One day...
Five key insights teachers in the Covid era can get from...
Covid or not, certain skills are difficult to teach inside the classroom. It is notoriously challenging to develop people’s creativity, initiative-taking, resilience, collaboration and...
Entrepreneurial education: its unique and novel contribution to education
Entrepreneurship is undeniably an action-oriented, emotional, team-based and interdisciplinary human activity. As the common acronym YCDBSOYA implies, you can’t do business sitting on your...
How is an employee entrepreneurial, and why should we care?
I’ve been a teacher in corporate entrepreneurship for five years now, and a researcher on how to make people entrepreneurial for ten years. Despite...
A diluted Enterprise Education version 1.0 and a more promising version...
It has been stated that enterprise education represents a risk of diluting entrepreneurship so much that it loses both its power and its legitimacy,...
Coming soon: First book for teachers about value creation pedagogy
Today it was made official - the first book for teachers about value creation pedagogy will be released in April in Sweden. Unfortunately for...
VCP List expands and gets new layout and classification
It was long overdue, but finally VCP List has been given a new layout based on a new classification, and thereby also a new...
Apparently, we’re among the first to build a social media platform...
Yesterday I finished writing a full paper about the research tool LoopMe that I've been working on for six years now (see www.loopme.io). While...
MethodTech: There must be a better way to do research than...
It is a well established fact that IT is reshaping just about every single field of human activity. But one thing that has remained...
How teachers can escape being caught between the Devil and the...
I just finished an article summarizing five years of work with six in-depth empirical studies on entrepreneurship education, enterprise education and value creation education....
Unguided Discovery Learning, Heavily Guided Instruction and Productive Failure
DISCLAIMER: This is NOT another senseless defense of the overhyped "fail fast" mantra.
Of late I’ve been often caught in heavy crossfire amid the (socio) constructivists and the...
Meet an emerging method guru in entrepreneurship
Late last year Yashar Mansoori defended his licentiate thesis at Chalmers University in Sweden. The focus was on entrepreneurial methods. Opponent was Steffen Korsgaard...
Educators collaborating instead of competing, anyone?
Having spent the last 4 years travelling across the UK talking to a whole variety of education establishments, one thing always struck me as...
Do winners become cheaters?
For many young people, competitions are perhaps the most recognisable, frequent and formative experiences of 'enterprise.' So this research, which explores the effects of winning in...
Time for a ‘Post Crash EntEd Society’?
If you've not come across the Post Crash Economics Society, then take a look. It was started by a group of students from The...
Critique of ‘entrepreneurship as solution’ to ‘working class deficit.’
Sociology PhD Kirsty Morrin critiqued entrepreneurship policy and practice during a special edition of Radio 4s Thinking Allowed programme.
The programme, presented by Laurie Taylor, explored...
Team Academy – a Finnish educational export
One of the world's most diffused models of entrepreneurship education comes from Jyväskylä in Finland. A city with a population slightly above 100.000, it...