Seven Challenges in Conceptualizing and Assessing Entrepreneurial Skills or Mindsets in Engineering Entrepreneurship Education

Autor/inn/en	Miranda, Constanza; Goñi, Julian; Berhane, Bruk; Carberry, Adam
Titel	Seven Challenges in Conceptualizing and Assessing Entrepreneurial Skills or Mindsets in Engineering Entrepreneurship Education
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 10 (2020), Artikel 309 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Miranda, Constanza) ORCID (Goñi, Julian) ORCID (Carberry, Adam)
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2227-7102
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; Program Development; Entrepreneurship; Engineering Education; Business Administration Education; Barriers; Teaching Methods; Sociology; Philosophy; Psychology; Intellectual Disciplines; Ethics; Evaluation Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Programmplanung; Unternehmungsgeist; Ingenieurausbildung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Soziologie; Philosophie; Psychologie; Geisteswissenschaften; Ethik
Abstract	The growth of undergraduate entrepreneurship education programs and research, both within and outside of business programs, has led to a diverse array of academic literature on this topic. The diversity of perspectives has led to many conceptual and educational challenges that remain unresolved within the literature. The following conceptual paper offers a critical perspective on challenges that have been identified. A narrative-style literature review was conducted to explore challenges emerging from both (a) the practice of teaching entrepreneurship and (b) the definitions and assessment of entrepreneurial mindsets and skills that result from those education processes in entrepreneurship education, particularly within an undergraduate engineering education context. We achieve this objective by discussing previously dispersed sources of literature from disciplines that have critically discussed and explored entrepreneurial themes, such as business education, sociology, psychology, and philosophy. Contemporary debates within multiple disciplines are integrated and organized as challenges to inspire new theoretical discussions among scholars, educators, and other practitioners that can inform a more comprehensive way to conceive and assess entrepreneurship in engineering education. Seven challenges were identified ranging from the definition of entrepreneurship in education to the role of ethics in the teaching and assessment of entrepreneurship. We use these seven challenges and research questions as a starting point for the disambiguation of the working definition of entrepreneurship in the context of engineering education. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01