Effectual Structuring of Entrepreneurship Education: Guidelines for Overcoming Inadequacies in the South African School Curriculum

IF 0.2 Q4 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Africa Education Review Pub Date : 2020-07-03 DOI:10.1080/18146627.2020.1868074
Adri du Toit, Elizabeth Kempen
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Abstract Entrepreneurship is valued for its economic and social benefits, but also to cultivate the characteristics required by learners to deal with the demands of the twenty-first century. Entrepreneurship education develops learners’ entrepreneurship knowledge, skills, characteristics, and mindsets. Several serious economic and social dilemmas (including high youth unemployment) occur in South Africa, and entrepreneurship education could contribute to addressing these dilemmas. Previous research revealed that entrepreneurship education appears infrequently and in isolated subjects in the South African school curriculum. These entrepreneurship education shortcomings in the South African school curriculum therefore needed to be investigated in an effort to revisit the curriculum to present learners with more opportunities to benefit from effectual entrepreneurship education. To support this quest, a literature review grounded in a constructivist approach to determine international best practice was used to explore how entrepreneurship education is being approached globally. The set of best practices was analysed and compared to current entrepreneurship education in South Africa, using curriculum document analysis, which revealed several areas for improvement of entrepreneurship education in this school curriculum. These insights were used to develop a set of guidelines that could be used to address the entrepreneurship education inadequacies in the current South African school curriculum, thereby contributing to the improvement of South African learners’ entrepreneurship education. An advantageous ripple effect could be expected for South Africa if learners utilise their entrepreneurship education to address the economic and social dilemmas that the country has to deal with.
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创业教育的有效结构:克服南非学校课程不足的指导方针
摘要创业的价值在于其经济和社会效益,同时也在于培养学习者应对21世纪需求所需的特征。创业教育培养学习者的创业知识、技能、特点和心态。南非出现了一些严重的经济和社会困境(包括青年失业率高),创业教育有助于解决这些困境。先前的研究表明,创业教育在南非学校课程中很少出现,而且是孤立的科目。因此,需要调查南非学校课程中的这些创业教育缺陷,努力重新审视课程,为学习者提供更多机会,从有效的创业教育中受益。为了支持这一探索,一项基于建构主义方法的文献综述被用来探索全球如何对待创业教育,以确定国际最佳实践。通过课程文件分析,对这套最佳做法进行了分析,并将其与南非目前的创业教育进行了比较。课程文件分析揭示了该学校课程中创业教育需要改进的几个领域。这些见解被用于制定一套指导方针,可用于解决当前南非学校课程中创业教育的不足之处,从而有助于改善南非学生的创业教育。如果学习者利用他们的创业教育来解决南非必须应对的经济和社会困境,预计南非将产生有利的连锁反应。
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期刊介绍: Africa Education Review is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal that seeks the submission of unpublished articles on current educational issues. It encourages debate on theory, policy and practice on a wide range of topics that represent a variety of disciplines, interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and transdisciplinary interests on international and global scale. The journal therefore welcomes contributions from associated disciplines including sociology, psychology and economics. Africa Education Review is interested in stimulating scholarly and intellectual debate on education in general, and higher education in particular on a global arena. What is of particular interest to the journal are manuscripts that seek to contribute to the challenges and issues facing primary and secondary in general, and higher education on the African continent and in the global contexts in particular. The journal welcomes contributions based on sound theoretical framework relating to policy issues and practice on the various aspects of higher education.
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