Active entrepreneurship education and the impact on approaches to learning: Mixed methods evidence from a six-year study into one entrepreneurship educator’s classroom
Journal article
Authors | Curtis, Vic, Moon, Rob and Penaluna, Andy |
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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 |
Keywords | active learning; approaches to learning; deep learning |
Year | 2020 |
Journal | Industry and Higher Education |
Publisher | Sage |
ISSN | 2043-6858 |
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 dates | 25 Nov 2020 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 14 Dec 2020 |
Accepted | 03 Sep 2020 |
Contributors | University of Derby and University of Wales, Trinity St David |
File | File Access Level Open |
File | File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9556y/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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