Academy of Strategic Management Journal (Print ISSN: 1544-1458; Online ISSN: 1939-6104)

Abstract

Social Entrepreneurship Education: Insights from the Indian Higher Educational Courses

Author(s): Saurabh Kumar

The major focus of the research conducted is to evaluate the trends of developing a postgraduate program for social entrepreneurship in India's Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs). The researcher has performed an extensive search on the syllabi of social entrepreneurship from websites of HEIs in India focusing on the keywords on entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and social innovation. The studies identified that the curricular differences exist among various institutions were considered significant. To get better and deeper insights, the researcher has performed an analysis of the schools where these courses are being taught. Moreover, evaluation of course objectives, its contents, teaching pedagogies and strategies is conducted on entrepreneurship. Discussion on these offered insights has ignited an argument for the requirement of inter-disciplinary collaboration among social entrepreneurship educators.

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