Who Is the Student Entrepreneur? Understanding the Emergent Adult through the Pedagogy and Andragogy Interplay

Abstract

Although entrepreneurship education is promoted through an active learning approach, critical concerns regarding how to educate potential entrepreneurs has increased. To remedy this, we pose the question: “Who is the student entrepreneur?” Building on conceptual work from developmental psychology, expertise research, pedagogy, and andragogy, we problematize based on the key characteristics of the emerging adult; a construct originating from developmental psychology. We illustrate an educational process moving from a pedagogical phase into an andragogical phase where the learner becomes in control of the learning process. As a result, we propose a continuum model of entrepreneurship education for emerging adults.

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Gustav Hägg

Gustav Hägg is a PhD at Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship, School of Economics and Management at Lund University, Sweden.

Agnieszka Kurczewska

Agnieszka Kurczewska is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology at University of Lodz, Poland.