Imagine there’s no competitions – a detox re-description of entrepreneurship and its education
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 way to study on-the-job learning. We spotted a new methodology...
Reflective assessment in entrepreneurial education – some challenges and a stairway model
Last week I was in France to meet research colleagues in entrepreneurial education from around Europe at the yearly 3E conference. One of the hot topics was assessing students through reflections. Of the 52...
Want to be part of a study on value creation pedagogy in higher education?
A month ago something rare happened to me. I got research funding for doing exactly the research I want to do myself. One day a week for three years. I've now spent a month...
Five key insights teachers in the Covid era can get from forerunners in digital...
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 empathy. Such skills have always been developed more strongly when...
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 armchair. The face value and contribution to education more broadly...
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 this, it’s not until recently that I’ve started thinking deeply...
A diluted Enterprise Education version 1.0 and a more promising version 2.0
It has been stated that enterprise education represents a risk of diluting entrepreneurship so much that it loses both its power and its legitimacy, since enterprise education leans on such a broad definition of...
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 non-Swedish, it will be in Swedish. The author is Maria...
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 section covering also Value Creation Pedagogy. The importance of classification...