What makes entrepreneurial learning difficult: cognitive conflicts or cultural clashes?

IF 2 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

European Journal of Engineering Education Pub Date : 2022-12-11 DOI:10.1080/03043797.2022.2154196

Oskar Hagvall Svensson

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Abstract

ABSTRACT As more entrepreneurial experiences are integrated into engineering programs, students are faced with new challenges they need help in managing. While previous research has identified entrepreneurial activities that engineering students struggle with, the antecedents of these difficulties have not been directly investigated. Drawing on an ethnographic study in a project-based entrepreneurship course, this paper investigates difficulties as caused by both cognitive conflicts and cultural clashes. The findings suggest that difficulties with entrepreneurial activities do not necessarily stem from lack of entrepreneurial capabilities on behalf of students, they can just as well stem from legitimate conflicts of interest that students and teachers need to navigate. As such, difficulties cannot always be solved by students learning more about entrepreneurship. As shown in the study, collaborative and externally oriented learning activities – mainstays of project-based entrepreneurship courses – particularly contribute to putting competing social demands on students.

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是什么让创业学习变得困难:认知冲突还是文化冲突?

随着越来越多的创业经验融入工程专业，学生们面临着新的挑战，他们需要帮助来管理。虽然以前的研究已经确定了工程专业学生在创业活动中遇到的困难，但这些困难的起因并没有被直接调查。本文以项目创业课程中的民族志研究为基础，探讨了认知冲突和文化冲突所造成的困难。研究结果表明，创业活动的困难并不一定源于学生缺乏创业能力，它们也可能源于学生和教师需要解决的合法利益冲突。因此，困难并不总是通过学生学习更多的创业知识来解决。研究表明，协作和面向外部的学习活动——基于项目的创业课程的支柱——特别有助于将竞争性的社会需求强加给学生。

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European Journal of Engineering Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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7.30

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期刊介绍： European Journal of Engineering Education is published six times a year in print and electronic editions and provides an essential forum for dialogue between researchers and specialists in the field of engineering education, at European and worldwide levels. European Journal of Engineering Education is the Official Journal of SEFI, the Socièté Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs (the European Society for Engineering Education). SEFI is a non-governmental organization whose aims are to develop information about engineering education, to improve communication and exchange between professors, researchers and students and to promote cooperation between the various institutions concerned with engineering education.