Do we really need yet another educational philosophy?
Just finalized my PhD thesis for the "end seminar", i.e. the final test before I get the PhD badge. After six years I ended up proposing a new educational philosophy grounded in entrepreneurship. Strangely...
Entrepreneurial education – a scholarly field with no future
I will never forget the day I met Dénis Gregoire, an entrepreneurship researcher who deliberately stopped doing research in entrepreneurial education. We met in 2011 at the BCERC conference in Syracuse, USA. I had...
Please help me develop a new educational philosophy! I have four questions…
After six years of action-based research on entrepreneurial education I am about to finalize my doctoral thesis. It will be about value creation as a new educational philosophy, or learning-by-(using-knowledge-for)-creating-value-(to-others). I view this as...
“It’s the teachers fault!” Students attacking their entrepreneurial teachers
We humans like when things go our way. When we don’t end up in unexpected trouble, when we don’t end up as prime target for angry rallying people. We prefer smooth operation, and a...
Bridging the traditional versus progressive education rift
Two years of writing and testing out my ideas in practice in the municipality of Sundsvall, Sweden, have now taken me to finalize an article and submit it to a scientific journal for publication....
Presenting at a webinar for OECD on value creation as pedagogy
Today I will be speaker at a webinar hosted by OECD, topic is a practitioner paper I have done for OECD on Entrepreneurship in Education - what is it, why to do it, when...
Three research-informed ideas hopefully contributing to best-in-Sweden for Sundsvall’s schools in 2021
Tomorrow I am in Sundsvall talking to around 200 school management people. My task is to give a background on entrepreneurial education / learning, and to propose some ideas for the future to school...
How our entrepreneurship students learn and how we can improve assessment of entrepreneurial learning
An intriguing master thesis was completed just before summer by one of our students at Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship, read it here. The student, Christoffer Kjernald, had taken a theory from my research and...
Slides from Framtidsfrön study and from seminar Göteborgs Stad
Here are some slides from this week's seminars. On Tuesday I presented a study I've done together with Framtidsfrön. The slides are in Swedish. Download them here: Presentation av resultat - förstudie Framtidsfrön 140520 -...
Slides from biomimetics conference
Tomorrow I am speaker at a conference focusing on biomimetics and interdisciplinary innovation. Here are my slides (in Swedish) from that conference: Gränsöverskridande innovation - Biomimetik 140328 - handouts