Entrepreneurship education and gender : The man-made entrepreneur
(2021) In International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business 12(1). p.5-25- Abstract
As the literature on entrepreneurship education grows, the issue of equality in entrepreneurship education has been raised; i.e., whether students are educated to become entrepreneurs equally. This article provides a critical and thought-provoking analysis of a portfolio of practices that, on the surface, appear to be successful in training entrepreneurs. To this purpose, we initiate a debate on what entrepreneurship education programmes tend to omit. We provide an argument within entrepreneurship scholarship that takes into consideration the diversity and complexity of gender in entrepreneurship. We present an insightful example of what we do in our university classrooms whilst calling for a more encompassing perspective of gender... (More)
As the literature on entrepreneurship education grows, the issue of equality in entrepreneurship education has been raised; i.e., whether students are educated to become entrepreneurs equally. This article provides a critical and thought-provoking analysis of a portfolio of practices that, on the surface, appear to be successful in training entrepreneurs. To this purpose, we initiate a debate on what entrepreneurship education programmes tend to omit. We provide an argument within entrepreneurship scholarship that takes into consideration the diversity and complexity of gender in entrepreneurship. We present an insightful example of what we do in our university classrooms whilst calling for a more encompassing perspective of gender within present-day teaching practice. We acknowledge that academic entrepreneurship education is gendered (Ahl, 2006) and we show how hegemonic masculine-framed foundations of entrepreneurship influence the vocabulary of teaching and learning in Sweden. The paper provides insights into how both teachers and students unluckily, fail to identify the masculinisation of entrepreneurship education.
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- Aggestam, Maria LU and Wigren-Kristoferson, Caroline LU
- organization
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- 2021
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- Critical theory, Entrepreneurship education, Gender
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- International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business
- volume
- 12
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 21 pages
- publisher
- Inderscience Publishers
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- scopus:85103613518
- ISSN
- 1479-3059
- DOI
- 10.1504/IJGSB.2021.113837
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- English
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- yes
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title = {{Entrepreneurship education and gender : The man-made entrepreneur}},
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