Overview
- Brings together a range of perspectives on experiential learning from around the world
- Provides case studies illustrating initiatives where experiential learning has been used for developing entrepreneurship
- Covers a wide range of business contexts including university incubators, the restaurant industry, voluntary organisations and a small family business
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Experiential Learning in Education
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Experiential Learning in the World of Work
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Back Matter
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About this book
This topical new book provides an illuminating overview of enterprise education, and poses the question as to whether current establishments have adequate systems in place to prepare students for the world of work. Addressing the increasing need for graduates with practical skills and expertise in the labour market, this collection of insightful chapters analyses the opportunities that are available for aspiring entrepreneurs to develop enterprise skills and experience key aspects of starting and running a business, whilst in a supported environment such as an educational program or incubator scheme. With comprehensive discussion of higher education initiatives and empirical examples of experiential learning in the workplace, this book is an important and timely read for those researching business enterprise, entrepreneurship and higher education more generally.
Reviews
“Learning through doing has long been recognised as the entrepreneurial mode of learning. Reflecting the uniqueness of entrepreneurship practice and context, experience, and experimentation, experiential learning provides the tacit, contextually embedded knowledge useful, and probably necessary, for both starting and running a business. This book provides interesting and eclectic perspectives about the experiential mode of learning. The thirteen chapters offer different international approaches by a wide range of scholars.” (Alistair R. Anderson, Professor, Robert Gordon University, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Denis Hyams-Ssekasi is a Research Coordinator and Lecturer in Business Management at the University of Bolton, UK. He has developed and delivered modules on entrepreneurship, ran several mentoring schemes and offered consultancy to start-up businesses, especially in developing countries. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Elizabeth F. Caldwell is an Academic Skills Tutor at the University of Huddersfield, UK, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She received her PhD from University College London and her current research interests revolve around the theory and practice of higher education, including a comparative approach to discipline specific pedagogies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Experiential Learning for Entrepreneurship
Book Subtitle: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives on Enterprise Education
Editors: Denis Hyams-Ssekasi, Elizabeth F. Caldwell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90005-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90004-9Published: 12 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07913-0Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90005-6Published: 30 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 270
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Management Education, Entrepreneurship, Career Skills, Careers in Business and Mangagement, Coaching, Higher Education