Toward a Learning Philosophy Based on Experience in Entrepreneurship Education
(2021) In Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy 4(1). p.4-29- Abstract
If experience is the guiding light in entrepreneurship education, then why is there so little mention of a philosophy of experience? This article aims to illuminate the philosophical foundations upon which entrepreneurship education rests by discussing learning through experience. In particular, we discuss the concept of experience used in educational research and learning activities for fostering knowledge development in entrepreneurship education. To illustrate our discussion, we develop a diagram that addresses primary and secondary experience and its interplay as well as a model that further illustrates how educative entrepreneurial experience could be researched through the empirical phenomenology. We suggest that although... (More)
If experience is the guiding light in entrepreneurship education, then why is there so little mention of a philosophy of experience? This article aims to illuminate the philosophical foundations upon which entrepreneurship education rests by discussing learning through experience. In particular, we discuss the concept of experience used in educational research and learning activities for fostering knowledge development in entrepreneurship education. To illustrate our discussion, we develop a diagram that addresses primary and secondary experience and its interplay as well as a model that further illustrates how educative entrepreneurial experience could be researched through the empirical phenomenology. We suggest that although entrepreneurship is currently positioned as an experiential subject in academia, the theoretical and philosophical roots of experience in learning have not been fully addressed, leading to a deficit in our understanding of how knowledge is derived from experience, and how experience may differ depending on its philosophical underpinnings.
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- Hägg, Gustav LU and Kurczewska, Agnieszka LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- entrepreneurship education, experience, learning, phenomenology, philosophy, pragmatism, reflection
- in
- Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy
- volume
- 4
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 26 pages
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
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- scopus:85134324757
- ISSN
- 2515-1274
- DOI
- 10.1177/2515127419840607
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 7cc3b9ec-d812-4f26-ab11-5f3f4e00d5eb
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