What Are Experiential Approach To Learning Entrepreneurship?

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THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MINI ENTERPRISES THAT MOTIVATE STUDENT INVOLVEMENT IN LEARNING ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Entrepreneurship has had its focus only on teaching entrepreneurship using traditional methods but today educators have brought forward methods of teaching that are action oriented (Rasmussen & Sorheim, 2006). This shortens the long boring theoretical part of teaching but brings active learning in the teaching and learning process. This came about as the use of traditional methods of entrepreneurship education was seen as inadequate (Gibb ,2002). The traditional methods were only mostly theoretical, teacher centered and limited student activity during class time. As the developments continued methods that were action oriented became experiential, problem based and put more emphasis on evaluation by peers of the same learning group.
EXPERIANTIAL
Different studies have successfully been able to document how experiential learning approaches are relevant to the subject of entrepreneurship (Heinonen and Poikkijoki, 2006). Experiential approach to learning entrepreneurship is seen as the best way to learn the subject of entrepreneurship (Taatila, 2010). According to Cherry (2014) Kolb defines experiential learning as a practice in which the knowledge that people hold is created through the renovation or makeover of experience, it falls out from the strong …show more content…

Besides being hands on in the business, learners who participate in mini enterprises according to experiential learning can learn through observation of others in the same mini enterprise group. The fact that the learners decide for themselves how they want to learn is the highest motivational element of experiential learning. Some learners in the mini enterprise collaborative work can decide if they want to transform their knowledge by reflective observation or active

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