Between critique and affirmation: An interventionist approach to entrepreneurship education

This chapter argues that it is not enough to "simply" question the optimistic politics of entreneurship education. Rather, this is an interplay between critique and affirmation, enabled by "an interventionist approach" that the authors pursue in the master's-level course "Entrepreneurship and Creativity". The described interventions aim at disentangling and reassociating time and space, bodies and motions, people and materials. The authors constantly add new elements to the equation in sometimes curious ways, thereby opening up for unusual learning formats which push towards critical reflection as well as experimenting with aesthetic, material, spatial and embodied ways of learning. In other words, this chapter offers a description and reflection of a course in which the authors set out to challenge some of the university's stabilized preconditions, take "critical walks", engage students in creative group performances, and invite them to move and dance. The chapter illustrates how an interventionist pedagogy generates affectual flows and may even result in a fumbling reinvention of teaching itself.