Overview
- Focuses on the importance of entrepreneurship a life skill for individual social progress
- Stresses uniquely the need to cultivate entrepreneurial thinking from childhood and to integrate entrepreneurship education across the school curriculum
- Gives methodological analysis and case studies on how entrepreneurship education needs to be work-centred
- Provides a ready-to-use experimental curriculum for practitioners and researchers interested in advancing entrepreneurship education
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- Behavioural outcome of entrepreneurship education
- Cultivating entrepreneurial abilities
- Curriculum design
- Developing entrepreneurial skills in children
- Entrepreneurial culture in school education
- Entrepreneurship education in school curriculum
- Experimental education in India
- Leadership and entrepreneurship education
- Pedagogy shifts in school education
- School education and life skills
- Stimulating innovation in children
- Teaching enterprise in children
- Teaching-learning paradigm for promoting entrepreneurship
- The entrepreneurial life skill
- Work-centered education
- learning and instruction
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Shipra Vaidya is Professor of commerce at the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi, India. She specializes in human resource management and entrepreneurship development. She is the author of Educational Reforms: New Trends and Innovations in Educational Development (2005) and Towards Effective Management (1996). In her recent work, she explores the epistemological framework of entrepreneurship narratives for schoolchildren. Her research mainly relates to promoting entrepreneurship education at different stages of school education in India. Her paper “Developing Entrepreneurial Life Skills” was awarded Best Newcomer’s paper Award at the Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference in Glasgow (Scotland) in 2007 and published in a volume by the National Institute of Education, Singapore in 2008. She has published research articles in the International Journal of Educational Research and Development; the SAARC Journal of Educational Research; Journal of Indian Education; and the Journal of Vocational Education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Developing Entrepreneurial Life Skills
Book Subtitle: Creating and Strengthening Entrepreneurial Culture in Indian Schools
Authors: Shipra Vaidya
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1789-3
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-1788-6Published: 10 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-1789-3Published: 27 March 2014
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 105
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Learning & Instruction, Sociology of Education