Engineering students’ conceptions of entrepreneurial learning as part of their education |
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| Authors: | Marge Täks Päivi Tynjälä Hasso Kukemelk |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Education, University of Tartu, Salme Street 1a, 50103 Tartu, Estoniamarge.taks@gmail.com;3. Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyv?skyl?, PO Box 35, Jyv?skyl? 40014, Finland;4. Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Education, University of Tartu, Salme Street 1a, 50103 Tartu, Estonia |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to examine what kinds of conceptions of entrepreneurial learning engineering students expressed in an entrepreneurship course integrated in their study programme. The data were collected during an entrepreneurship course in Estonia that was organised for fourth-year engineering students, using video-recorded group interviews (N?=?48) and individual in-depth interviews (N?=?16). As a result of the phenomenographic analysis, four qualitatively distinctive conceptions of entrepreneurial learning were discerned. Entrepreneurial learning was seen to involve (1) applying entrepreneurial ideas to engineering, (2) understanding entrepreneurial issues in a new way, (3) action-oriented personal development, and (4) self-realising through collective effort. These qualitatively distinct categories differed from each other in four dimensions of variation: nature of learning, response to pedagogy, relation to teamwork, and learning outcomes. |
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| Keywords: | conceptions of learning entrepreneurial learning phenomenography integrative pedagogy teamwork |
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