Service Learning in Social Entrepreneurship Education: Why Students Want to Become Social Entrepreneurs and How to Address Their Motives
Journal
Journal of Enterprising Culture
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2015
Author(s)
Abstract
Service learning has been identified as a suitable approach to teach social en- trepreneurship. However, in order to design service learning in an appropriate way, it is necessary to better understand why students want to become a social entrepreneur as opposed to a traditional entrepreneur. Thus, this study aims at identifying distinct student motives for preferring social entrepreneurship. According to our research, reasons typically mentioned by students who prefer a social entrepreneurship career over a commercial entrepreneurship career belonged to the following categories: impact, personal motives, and considering social and economic aspects. From this understanding, we derive recommenda- tions for the design of service learning in social entrepreneurship programs. We hope that these recommendations will contribute to a student-oriented design of service learning that incorporates students’ own motives.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Volume
23
Number
3
Start page
357
End page
380
Pages
14
Subject(s)
Contact Email Address
susan.mueller@unisg.ch
Eprints ID
249989