Entrepreneurship Education Research Revisited: The Case of Higher Education

Our purpose in this article is to take stock of the education preoccupations that animate research on entrepreneurship focusing on the context of higher education. More specifically, we content-analyze a sample of 103 peer-reveiewed entrepreneurship education articles through the prism of Bertrant's Contemporary Theories and Practice in Education. Our results indicate that this literature is articulated around four major types of education preoccupations: 1. preoccuptions with the social and economic roles of entrepreneurship education for individuals and society, as well as with the institutions of higher education (i.e., instructional design, the use of multimedia environemtns, and curriculum development); 2. preoccuptions with the systemization of entrepreneurship education (i.e., instructional design, the use of multimedia environments, and curriculum development), 3. preoccuptions with the content matter to be taught and how this content should be delivered; and 4. preoccuptions with considering the needs of individual students in structuring teaching interventions. Yet, three education preoccuptions remain underaddressed, that is, those proceeding from social-cognitive, psycho-cognitive, and spiritualist or ethical theories. While we consider five obstacles that may prevent management scholars from studying these dimensions, we argue that to address this limitation, scholars must develop a dual expertise in management and edcuation research. To this aim, we highlight a number of specific theoretical and empirical references associated with different education research preoccupations. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]