Building Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy through Entrepreneurship Education: Understanding the Pedagogical Designs

Abstract

The learning activities, educator roles and teaching methods employed in tertiary-level entrepreneurship courses that develop entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) remain unclear. This research discovers that role-transitioning between educator roles enables reflection, enabling greater self-awareness and entrepreneurial awareness, facilitated by curation of ESE sources and catalysts. Based on interviews with 77 course designers in 26 countries, the findings of this research can improve ESE development resulting in more high-efficacious graduate entrepreneurs.