{"id":2458,"date":"2019-10-09T09:36:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T09:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nasca.edu.in\/learning-centre\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2019-10-18T06:37:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T06:37:46","slug":"why-schools-should-teach-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nasca.edu.in\/learning-centre\/thought-leadership\/why-schools-should-teach-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"Why schools should teach entrepreneurship?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Friedman advocates for inspiring young people to create the companies that\nwill provide long-lasting employment for the country\u2019s citizens. He says\nstudents should be innovation ready – meaning that along with their\nmortarboards, they should receive the critical-thinking, communication and\ncollaboration skills that will help them invent their own careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While society has grown by leaps and bounds, our K-12 schools have largely remained stagnant. As a result, they are not graduating the doers, makers and cutting-edge thinkers the world needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are exceptions of course: some public and private schools\nare modernising through collaboration among students, online learning and\nintegrating science with the arts. As a school principal puts it: \u201cWe do our\nbit about introducing elements in the curriculum that we feel is relevant for\nthe future without consulting the government authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, most institutions have not changed their direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They do not teach what should be the cornerstone of modern-day education \u2013 entrepreneurship \u2013 the capacity to not only start companies but also to think creatively and ambitiously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traditionally, entrepreneurship education was introduced more like a post-graduate course. However, the current trends in the job market indicate a serious rethink is required on the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How entrepreneurship education benefits students:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  1. It teaches students to think outside the box.<\/li>
  2. It nurtures unconventional talents and skills.<\/li>
  3. It helps in critical thinking.<\/li>
  4. It creates opportunity, ensures social justice, instills\nconfidence and stimulates the economy.<\/li>
  5. It hones students’ problem-solving skills.<\/li>
  6. They become intelligent risk-takers and learn to be\npersistent – both vital traits for entrepreneurs. They are forced to think\nout of the box, to fail and persist – experiences that would inspire them to\nbecome creative, inventive and innovative. <\/li>
  7. Entrepreneurship embraces talents and skills that teachers in\nconventional classrooms might otherwise penalize.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    According to Paul Tough\u2019s book, How Children Succeed<\/em>: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, <\/em>students who attend private schools are not world changers. The reason: These schools offer affluent parents \u201ca high probability of nonfailure.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In other words, affluent backgrounds often do not encourage kids to take risks and make mistakes, which are necessary for cultivating ingenuity.  Entrepreneurship education can help overcome this limitation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    How to integrate entrepreneurship lessons in the school curriculum:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Learning a Business<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Students can practise\nwriting, interview questions and conduct interviews with entrepreneurs. They\ncan understand the business model, the strengths and challenges and discuss\npossible solutions as a group.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Incubation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Students can be\nchallenged to come up with business ideas or products, that they think others\nwould be interested to buy, assess the potential audience and competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    SWOT analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Teach students to\nthink about the strengths and weaknesses of their product and come up with\ninteresting solutions within the available resources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Re-imagining<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Creativity dwells\nwithin the imagination. Train them to re-imagine common objects and come up\nwith a different way to design, present and use them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Research skills<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Have students to look\nthrough the yellow pages to spot businesses and interesting names, and then\ncategorise these results in superlative forms of adjectives, foreign words,\nwhat the business produce or sells, geographic locations and their functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Teaching\nentrepreneurship skills through school is a process, and it is highly\nrecommended that students be left free to find their calling through it.\nTeachers should also be provided with guidelines to manage students and help\nthem to foster a pleasant environment for students to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Entrepreneurship education can help students to develop ingenuity and the art of taking intelligent risks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,50],"tags":[66,65,15,67,64],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thinking-ahead","category-thought-leadership","tag-business","tag-critical-thinking","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-entrepreneurship-education","tag-k12-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasca.edu.in\/learning-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasca.edu.in\/learning-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasca.edu.in\/learning-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasca.edu.in\/learning-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasca.edu.in\/learning-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasca.edu.in\/learning-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasca.edu.in\/learning-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasca.edu.in\/learning-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasca.edu.in\/learning-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasca.edu.in\/learning-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasca.edu.in\/learning-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}