Active entrepreneurship education and the impact on approaches to learning: Mixed methods evidence from a six-year study into one entrepreneurship educator’s classroom

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Curtis, Vic, Moon, Rob and Penaluna, Andy 2020. Active entrepreneurship education and the impact on approaches to learning: Mixed methods evidence from a six-year study into one entrepreneurship educator’s classroom. Industry and Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950422220975319
AuthorsCurtis, Vic, Moon, Rob and Penaluna, Andy
Abstract

Taking an active and experiential approach to teaching is often assumed to be the best way to promote learning. However, the empirical evidence to support this assertion in entrepreneurship education is inconclusive, and current practice suggests that delivery in higher education is still quite passive and traditional. This 6-year, mixed method study sets out to demonstrate that, in a final-year International Entrepreneurship module at a UK university mapped through the lens of ‘about’, ‘for’ and ‘through’ entrepreneurship, a more innovative, active, experiential and constructively aligned approach to teaching, learning and assessment impacts positively on students’ deep and surface approaches to learning. Students viewed the module as significantly more active than passive and the level of deep learning was significantly greater than the level of surface learning. Additionally, the more active approach was significantly correlated to increased deep learning and
reduced surface learning. Students highlighted the active teaching approach and the creation of videos for a local company as part of the authentic assessment as catalysts for deeper learning approaches. The study provides empirical evidence that active entrepreneurship education has a positive impact on student approaches to learning.

Keywordsactive learning; approaches to learning; deep learning
Year2020
JournalIndustry and Higher Education
PublisherSage
ISSN2043-6858
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1177/0950422220975319
Web address (URL)http://hdl.handle.net/10545/625466
hdl:10545/625466
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0950422220975319
Publication dates25 Nov 2020
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Deposited14 Dec 2020
Accepted03 Sep 2020
ContributorsUniversity of Derby and University of Wales, Trinity St David
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