Pedagogy in Entrepreneurship: Traversing New Avenues of Teaching

Abstract

Teaching Entrepreneurship course to students is challenging and rewarding. The Teacher’s role as a Facilitator is to ensure that the class is a blend of theory and practice .This paper is one such attempt to throw light on pedagogy of entrepreneurship to keep Learning captivating. The objective of this paper is to study the impact of various pedagogical tools to teach the subject of Entrepreneurship for Undergraduate and Post graduate Students. The study relies on data from secondary sources of literature mostly online and personal experience of Teaching. This paper explores documents, materials and methods of teaching Entrepreneurship in an innovative way. The author has been involved in teaching Entrepreneurship course for Undergraduate and Post graduate Programs since 2013.Few of the pedagogical tools that were administered for teaching Entrepreneurship are Case studies, Visit of students to MSME Expo, Classroom games, Flashcards Preparation, Preparing an Entrepreneurship Tree, visit to Entrepreneurship Training institutes, conducting Interviews with Entrepreneurs. The students have been made to participate in teams at times and individually at times. The students have gained experiential learning in diverse activities undertaken for them. The Course is kept stimulating through these tools. The study will contribute to the existing literature on pedagogy for Entrepreneurship Education.