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Experiential Learning Philosophies of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education

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How can educators in entrepreneurship education apply an experiential learning perspective in their curriculum design and course planning? Hannon (2005) suggested using the notions on teaching about, for, and through when developing and researching entrepreneurship education. However, other notions and overall understandings may provide us with new perspectives that can advance the field by taking into consideration other elements.

The current conceptual chapter proposes that research in entrepreneurship education has developed a narrow perspective on learning. Research on entrepreneurship education and especially experiential learning has long pursued questions of how to apply the pedagogies and didactics of experiential learning into curriculum development and course planning, but the educator’s own ability to differentiate and experiment with known learning approaches has been a highly overlooked topic.

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Ramsgaard, M.B. (2018). Experiential Learning Philosophies of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education. In: Hyams-Ssekasi, D., Caldwell, E. (eds) Experiential Learning for Entrepreneurship. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90005-6_1

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