Social entrepreneurship education in Canada: passion and practice

Abstract

Social entrepreneurship education still is a fairly young area of interest within the field of entrepreneurship education, but is growing rapidly in terms of research and practice. Frameworks for analysis and development of respective curricular approaches and courses have recently been suggested to support the further development of the field. Applying those frameworks to the analysis of respective syllabi at various Canadian universities may result in a comparative discussion of practices and passionate development of well-designed and learner-centered courses. In this paper, we contextualize social entrepreneurship education by reviewing how the literature has addressed important terms, concepts, and issues. Next, we present and discuss relevant frameworks that have proven to be of benefit to the analysis of educational approaches. Finally, we use one of these frameworks to analyze social entrepreneurship syllabi at Canadian universities (Fornaciari & Lund Dean, 2014).