Entrepreneurship Education - Current Developments, Future Directions

The past decade has witnessed an explosion in the number of entrepreneurship education programs in this country. In this comprehensive volume, 18 contributors survey and report on the latest developments in entrepreneurship education at the elementary, secondary, and university levels. The contributors explore what works and what doesn't, suggest ways to improve current programs, and propose solutions for areas not adequately covered by existing programs. The contributors conclude that many traditional models of entrepreneurship education must be discarded if it is to be effective in the years to come. In particular, they argue that entrepreneurship cannot be taught--as it often is now--in non-entrepreneurial settings by teachers who are not themselves entrepreneurial. They demonstrate that such highly structured programs which minimize student involvement and creativity will fail to produce the entrepreneurs of the future. Thus they issue a call to educators nationwide to recognize the unique characteristics and contributions of entrepreneurs and to reorganize themselves to accommodate, cultivate, and perpetuate the process of entrepreneurship.

The book begins with a discussion of the essential features of entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurship and education interface with each other. The contributors go on to discuss entrepreneurship on college campuses. They show how the entrepreneurship curriculum in schools of business has evolved from a course in small business management to full-blown programs in entrepreneurial studies and consider how programs should be designed for non-traditional students--potential and practicing entrepreneurs not currently in college. The contributors also look at how entrepreneurship can be integrated into a variety of secondary school courses in social studies as well as those in business and vocational education programs. They highlight new directions in vocational entrepreneurship education and look at the special problems involved in entrepreneurship education for the urban and at-risk student. Finally, the contributors address entrepreneurship education at the elementary level. Arguing that most young children are quite entrepreneurial in nature but lose that characteristic by the time they reach high school, the contributors discuss what can be done to keep the entrepreneurial spirit alive through the elementary grades.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction: Educating the Heffalump by Calvin A. Kent
Scope and Theory
Entrepreneurship and Education by Francis W. Rushing
Thinking About Entrepreneurs: Models, Assumptions, and Evidence by Gerald Gunderson
Elements of a Successful Entrepreneurship/Economics Education Program by Gary Rabbior
Entrepreneurship Education at the University Level
The Educated Entrepreneurs: A New Era of Entrepreneurial Education Is Beginning by Robert Ronstadt
Post-Secondary Entrepreneurship Education for the Practicing Venture Initiator by W. F. Kiesner
Entrepreneurship Education at the Collegiate Level: A Synopsis and Evaluation by Calvin A. Kent
Family Business: A New Wave for Business Schools by Craig E. Aronoff and Mary B. Cawley
Entrepreneurship in the Elementary Curriculum
Entrepreneurial Thinking and Behavior: What Role the Classroom? by Marilyn Kourilsky
Economics and Entrepreneurship Education in the Elementary Grades by Francis W. Rushing
Economics and Entrepreneurship Education for Young Adolescents by Ronald A. Banaszak
Entrepreneurship Education at the Secondary Level
Integrating Entrepreneurship in the Secondary Curriculum: Economics and Other Courses by Calvin A. Kent
What Entrepreneurship Education Should Teach About Economics by John E. Clow
Entrepreneurship in Vocational Education by M. Catherine Ashmore
Case Studies and Other Student-Based Programs in Entrpreneurship Programs by Judith Staley Brenneke
Interns and Mentorships in Entrepreneurship Education Programs by Margaret M. Murphy
Approaches to Education for the Economically Disadvantaged: Creating Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs and Those Who Will Work for Them by Michael A. MacDowell
Entrepreneurship/Economics Education in the Urban Environment: The E-3 Project by Calvin A. Kent
Bibliography
Index

About the author

CALVIN A. KENT is Herman W. Lay Professor of Private Enterprise and Director of the Center for Private Enterprise and the National Center for Entrepreneurship in Economics Education at Baylor University. He is the founder of seven businesses and has served on President Reagan's Task Force on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Education. His recent books include Entrepreneurship and the Privatizing of Government (Quorum, 1987).

Product details

• Assisted by: Calvin Kent (Editor), Kent Calvin A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.1990
• EAN: 9780899305233
• ISBN: 978-0-89930-523-3
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, United States of America, USA, Teaching of a specific subject, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General, Business: Entrepreneurship