Using self as case in teach-the-teacher courses in entrepreneurship to reflect on experiences as student and teacher

This chapter is about using self as case in teach-the-teacher entrepreneurship courses. As participants likely will engage as teachers in entrepreneurial education, the course has potential to affect many future students. I argue that two types of cases are needed. The first kind places the teachers in entrepreneurial situations where they have first-hand experience of what they want their future students to experience, which easily can be mimicked in their own teaching. The second type is about cognitively understanding what entrepreneurial education is about and what teacher skills and competences are needed to teach entrepreneurially. In others words—professional tools for teaching entrepreneurially. In both these situations, the 'case' is the teacher. By reflecting on your own real-time or retrospective entrepreneurial action for the first type, and by reflecting on yourself as an entrepreneurial educator for the second type, each teacher becomes their own case. Two such case tasks of each kind are presented that build on five pillars of entrepreneurial education presented in the chapter. Although the content is most relevant for those engaging in teach-the-teacher courses in entrepreneurship, it is also relevant for traditional entrepreneurship teachers as cases can be applied in their teaching or as tools to develop their teaching.