Verification of Sensemaking Process Starting from Self-awareness by the VIA Model in PBL in Entrepreneurship Education Program

Abstract

: Today’s entrepreneurship education in Japan is mainly based on knowledge- and skill-oriented programs in the style of Silicon Valley in the United States. However, for university students belonging to Generation Z, the motivation for entrepreneurship tends to be not only wealth, but also altruistic “meaning” such as social contribution and connection with others. Self-awareness of the purpose and implications of entrepreneurship is necessary, but there are very few opportunities for university students to become self-aware in entrepreneurship education. However, Nonaka’s SECI model and Weick’s concept of Sensemaking are beginning to attract attention, and specific methodologies for self-awareness are desired. The author proposed a methodology to realize self-awareness from the viewpoint of Affective Engineering in the paper published in ISASE2020, and verified the effectiveness of affective sense of value extraction in the paper published in IJAE2020. In addition, the author proposed the rublic for self-assessment tool on “Sensemaking” by PBL participants in ISASE2021. In this paper, the author verified the effectiveness of the proposed rubric and sensemaking process in PBL.