Beliefs, Values, and Reflective Practice in Entrepreneurship Education–Explicating Teaching Philosophies in Higher Education

Entrepreneurship educators tend to draw on generic approaches such as Business Model Canvas, Lean Start-up, or Design Thinking. However, how contextualized approaches put their signature on entrepreneurship education (EE) continues to challenge research and practice (Jones, 2019). This challenge is real, as educators balance, coordinate, develop, and assess their approaches, for enacting EE (Blenker et al., 2011). One vehicle in this pedagogical work, are teaching philosophies (TP) offering systematic and critical rationales explicating teaching beliefs, values, and reflective teaching practice (Schönwetter et al., 2002). These explicit accounts of how educators teach, have in other areas been found to provide improved value for the academic development of educators and institutions because of their systematic procedures and thoroughly tested workshop-formats.