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Entrepreneurship in a School Setting – Constructing a Generation of Self-Conducted Managers?
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Innovation and Product Realisation.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0164-5914
Stockholm University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7889-2331
Örebro university, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2308-2187
2015 (English)In: Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business RENT2015, 2015Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Purpose: to enhance our understanding of how entrepreneurship is translated into the school setting and possible consequences of its interpretations in regard to citizens and the surrounding society. Design/methodology/approach – We take a discourse approach drawing upon governmentality and the concepts of program and technology. In this paper we have a specific focus on how a programmatic initiative - a strategy for implementing entrepreneurship in schools - is made operable in practice by means of a technology – a competence development initiative - which is something that so far has been scarce in prior research. Findings – The results shows the process of how entrepreneurship gets translated into a new discourse of an entrepreneurial approach, which takes on a broader perspective including a life-long learning, cooperation with the society and democratic values. In this way stretching the program beyond its initial intentions. Moreover, that the entrepreneurial approach could come with unintended consequences that are related to democratic values which the discourse tend to marginalize or exclude. Originality/value of the paper – There has been a lack of studies that focus on the process of how programs of entrepreneurship is translated and made operable in the school setting. We are also questioning what is often taken for granted when it comes to entrepreneurship in schools i.e. what is good for business is good for education and society in large

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2015.
Keywords [en]
governmentality, entrepreneurship discourse, enterprising discourse, enterprising self, entrepreneurial approach.
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Pedagogy Learning
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-36989OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-36989DiVA, id: diva2:1160496
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Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business RENT2015, 18 Nov 2015, Zagreb, Croatia
Available from: 2017-11-27 Created: 2017-11-27 Last updated: 2020-11-17Bibliographically approved

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