TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhancing Self-Directed Learning Readiness in Entrepreneurship Education
AU - Timmermans, Anoesjka
PY - 2023/6/18
Y1 - 2023/6/18
N2 - Worldwide entrepreneurship education (EE) is gaining popularity as an employability skill to prepare learners for a future of adaptability and lifelong learning. Its scholarship, however, is concerned that we have lost sight of what works, why, and how in EE. This is especially true for such novel learning objectives as preparation for lifelong learning. This quasi-experimental, mixed methods research sought answers to the question: of how EE pedagogy influences students’ self-directed learning readiness (SDLR). Statistically significant relations were found, especially between self-efficacy and SDLR. The impact of EE was found to be highly significant, which was explained by the effect of a stage-wise, mixed pedagogy approach to teaching/learning. Enhancement of self-efficacy and motivation for self-directed learning was found to benefit from a continuous cyclical teaching-learning process combining passive, participative and self-steered learning within and throughout each step of the learning process, in simulated and authentic learning contexts.
AB - Worldwide entrepreneurship education (EE) is gaining popularity as an employability skill to prepare learners for a future of adaptability and lifelong learning. Its scholarship, however, is concerned that we have lost sight of what works, why, and how in EE. This is especially true for such novel learning objectives as preparation for lifelong learning. This quasi-experimental, mixed methods research sought answers to the question: of how EE pedagogy influences students’ self-directed learning readiness (SDLR). Statistically significant relations were found, especially between self-efficacy and SDLR. The impact of EE was found to be highly significant, which was explained by the effect of a stage-wise, mixed pedagogy approach to teaching/learning. Enhancement of self-efficacy and motivation for self-directed learning was found to benefit from a continuous cyclical teaching-learning process combining passive, participative and self-steered learning within and throughout each step of the learning process, in simulated and authentic learning contexts.
KW - self-directed learning readiness
KW - self-efficacy
KW - motivation
KW - entrepreneurship education
KW - autonomy
KW - pedagogy
KW - higher education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85163411802&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.33423/jhetp.v23i9.6137
DO - 10.33423/jhetp.v23i9.6137
M3 - Article
SN - 2158-3595
VL - 23
SP - 231
EP - 249
JO - Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice
JF - Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice
IS - 9
M1 - 6137
ER -