Towards a Universal Curriculum for Entrepreneurial Education Based on Intrinsic Learning Motivations

Abstract

There is a growing awareness around the world on the need for a paradigmatic change in the intellectual formation of the new generation learners to help them meet the demands of the age of acceleration, which is characterized by incessant and turbulent social, technological, and economical transitions. This is especially critical in a time when intelligent machines keep encroaching into the human life and workspaces, systematically replacing them especially from jobs that demand analytical thinking skills. An adequate educational response to the emerging situation could be to impart the new generation learners with an entrepreneurial mindset, equipping them to change their skillset flexibly on demand and to prepare them to transform the world around them using the knowledge acquired with a venturing spirit. Such an entrepreneurial paradigm shift of education remains, however, not sufficiently defined today to allow its immediate implementation. The current paper is an attempt to sketch a universal curriculum for entrepreneurial mode of conducting education purely based on intrinsic motivations of the learners. Being a curriculum that transcends its content to consolidate an entrepreneurial mindset in the learners, it could be seamlessly integrated with any existing curricula, ensuring its universal application. The proposed curriculum also resonates well with the educational legacy of the nation, qualifying itself to be an ideal tool to bring about an entrepreneurial paradigm shift to the conduct of education in India.