Guide to social entrepreneurship and its competencies in higher education : case Erasmus+ SEinHE-project
Kabdulova, Mariya (2022)
2022
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202205179785
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The popularity of social entrepreneurship has been increased in recent years (Mair 2006) and demand for social entrepreneurship education has grown significantly. (Miller 2012). According to CASE (The Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship), the social entrepreneurship is the process of recognizing and resourcefully using opportunities to create social value and address the critical social needs. (CASE 2021)
The aim of this research is to understand what the social entrepreneurship competences are and study social entrepreneurship from the first- and second-year students’ point of view, but also create a practical guide for International Business studies. To see how teachers’ knowledge reflects to student’s views and knowledge about social entrepreneurship and its competences, it’s been decided to send a survey to teachers from five international universities.
This thesis collaborates with the Erasmus+SeinHE-project, that develops understanding competences regarding social entrepreneurship and develops education approaches in the five project partner universities.
The thesis includes the theoretical and empirical parts. The theoretical part focuses not only on social entrepreneurship as a phenomenon, but also on understanding and identifying the social entrepreneurship competences. The empirical part is based on the qualitative method of data gathering and analysing. The research method used in this research is action research method and technique of thematic analysis is used to help to analyse gathered data from students’ interviews and the Webropol-survey questions for teachers.
The results of surveys and interviews showed that not so many students know about social entrepreneurship and its competences. The working-life related project, that will help students to understand more about social entrepreneurship and its competences is recommended. This thesis analyses the current situation and gives recommendations how to increase knowledge. Also, a practical guide for anyone interested in social entrepreneurship is created.
The aim of this research is to understand what the social entrepreneurship competences are and study social entrepreneurship from the first- and second-year students’ point of view, but also create a practical guide for International Business studies. To see how teachers’ knowledge reflects to student’s views and knowledge about social entrepreneurship and its competences, it’s been decided to send a survey to teachers from five international universities.
This thesis collaborates with the Erasmus+SeinHE-project, that develops understanding competences regarding social entrepreneurship and develops education approaches in the five project partner universities.
The thesis includes the theoretical and empirical parts. The theoretical part focuses not only on social entrepreneurship as a phenomenon, but also on understanding and identifying the social entrepreneurship competences. The empirical part is based on the qualitative method of data gathering and analysing. The research method used in this research is action research method and technique of thematic analysis is used to help to analyse gathered data from students’ interviews and the Webropol-survey questions for teachers.
The results of surveys and interviews showed that not so many students know about social entrepreneurship and its competences. The working-life related project, that will help students to understand more about social entrepreneurship and its competences is recommended. This thesis analyses the current situation and gives recommendations how to increase knowledge. Also, a practical guide for anyone interested in social entrepreneurship is created.