Entrepreneurial Education And Entrepreneurship Education

Although it is a given that many research findings demonstrate an overall agreement on entrepreneurial education and that entrepreneurship can be learned and taught to a certain extent, agreements around the entrepreneurship education curriculum such as teaching methods, appropriateness of concepts and educational course content, are not quite in unison amongst scholars (Robinson and Hayenes 1991; Kuratko 2005; Pittaway and Cope 2007; Lià ±Ãƒ ¡n et al 2011). Therefore it can be assumed that entrepreneurial education can be a step forward in impacting young individuals to develop their entrepreneurial intentions and propensity, but the extent of such curriculum and its impact on nurturing effective entrepreneurs remains uncertain. 2.5†¦show more content†¦Recognising prior intentions can allow for a better comprehension of the intended behaviour. Attitudes can motivate behaviours and the force of intentions. Above all, attitudes and intensions are very much subjected to a person and his/her circumstance. Indeed, the intention of performing entrepreneurial behaviours can be influenced by social influences (Dubini and Aldrich 2002) as well as cognitive factors like beliefs, values and needs to name a few (Lee and Wong 2004). Two-intention models: Ajzen s theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and Shapero s model of the ‘entrepreneurial event’ (SEE) have profound ability in predicting a person’s entrepreneurial intentions. As entrepreneurship emphasises a thought process of assessing opportunities over threats, when a person identifies an opportunity, it is justifiably an intentional process, which may or may not lead to an entrepreneurial behaviour. Ajzen’s model (1987; 1991) argues that planned behaviours such as creating a start-up company are completely intentional, and it depends on self-perceptions of social norms, feasibility and attractiveness. Previous research on cognitive factors and an individual’s intention to enter entrepreneurship were found to overlook personality traits and take them into account when designing curriculums or training classes on entrepreneurship (Zarafshani and Rajabi 2011). In fact, not much has been done to explore the association between entrepreneurial intentions and personality traits.