Empowering Faculty to Use Practices of Hospitality and Vulnerability to Encourage Risk Taking in the Higher Education Classroom

Author(s):  
Jennifer W. Shewmaker ◽  
Amy Boone
Keyword(s):  
Author(s):  
Iain MacLaren

Whilst much of the rhetoric of current educational policy champions creativity and innovation, structural reforms and new management practices in higher education run counter to the known conditions under which creativity flourishes. As a review of recent literature suggests, surveillance, performativity, the end of tenure and rising levels of workplace stress are all closing off the space for real creative endeavour, characterised as it is by risk-taking, collaborative exploration and autonomy. Innovation, as conceived in this policy context (i.e., that of the UK and Ireland), is narrow in scope and leaves little room for critical re-examination of the nature of education itself or radical reconceptions of curriculum, raising the question as to whether such are more likely to arise extra mural , from new forms of organisation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Mette Sandoff ◽  
Kerstin Nilsson ◽  
Britt-Marie Apelgren ◽  
Sylva Frisk ◽  
Shirley Booth

Higher education teaching demands theoretical and practical knowledge. It goes without saying, a strong knowledge of one’s subject is essential. But while teaching principles are generally gleaned from short courses, it is one’s own teaching that offer the main ground for gaining practical teaching knowledge. To examine this claim we have conducted an interview-study in which Swedish business administration academics have described where they learned something about their teaching. An interpretative analysis led to six different lessons learned, ranging from the personal, through the pedagogical, to the interpersonal. We claim there are three necessary opportunities to turn the experience into an occasion for learning: reflection over experience, the opportunity to articulate one’s experience, and a forum for sharing; particularly experiences connected with risk-taking. We conclude that academics need opportunities to reflect on and articulate their learning experiences related to the practices of teaching, and to share and discuss them with colleagues. 


2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 1311-1318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shouming Chen ◽  
Xuemei Su ◽  
Sibin Wu

We examined which factors lead to entrepreneurial risk-taking behavior, using the 2 tests of entrepreneurial behavior theory (desirability and feasibility) to investigate how need for achievement and education interact to influence risk-taking propensity. Using data collected from 230 nascent entrepreneurs in a mid-western state in the USA, we tested 2 hypotheses and found empirical evidence to support the 2 tests theory. The results showed that entrepreneurs with high need for achievement and who had received higher education were more willing to take risks than were entrepreneurs with low need for achievement and who had not received higher education. Research implications and limitations are discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eda Gurel ◽  
Melih Madanoglu ◽  
Levent Altinay

PurposeThis longitudinal study assesses whether higher education has the same impact on the entrepreneurial intentions of women and men with regard to their propensity to risk-taking in particular.Design/methodology/approachA self-administrated survey instrument was used to collect data from students studying business and engineering at five selected universities in Turkey. The survey was carried out in two intervals: first year and fourth year of studies. A total of 215 student participated in both waves.FindingsThe findings indicate that the impact of education is stronger for women than for men as the relationship between gender and entrepreneurial intention is moderated by education and risk-taking propensity in that the entrepreneurial intention of women with high or low risk-taking propensity increases when they acquire higher education. In particular, the boost is more noticeable for women with low risk-taking propensity. On the contrary, the effect of education is negative for men with both high risk-taking propensity and low risk-taking propensity.Practical implicationsThis study has identified that the impact of education is different for women and men. Based on these findings, Turkey could offer gender-specific entrepreneurship education in higher education for individuals who could then exploit their entrepreneurial capacity and thus contribute to the social and economic well-being of the country.Originality/valueThis paper makes two distinct contributions. First, this is one of the few longitudinal studies in the literature which demonstrates the differences between females and males in terms of their entrepreneurial intention and shows how risk-taking and education influence entrepreneurial intention. Second, it offers new insights into entrepreneurship research from a developing-country but emerging-economy context.


Author(s):  
Stella Jones-Devitt ◽  
Liz Austen ◽  
Brian Irwin ◽  
Kieran McDonald ◽  
Helen J. Parkin

Students entering Higher Education (HE) have high levels of digital capability built on the need to be socially-connected; they should be 'easy to reach’ if thinking about connectivity underpinning the digital age. Yet findings based on commissioned work exploring digital capability and teaching excellence (Austen et al, 2016) indicate that student appraisals of this relationship relate to the logistical benefits of technology rather than to the development of capabilities for professional practice, i.e. the multi-faceted set of academic and information-retrieval skills. Our study highlights a pedagogical challenge in needing to re-frame digital capability for all learners new to HE as this 'hard to reach' phenomenon is maintained by a student focus on technological hygiene factors rather than supported risk-taking. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Paul Feigenbaum

Educators increasingly extol failure as a necessary component of learning and growth. However, students frequently experience failure as a source of fear and anxiety that impedes risk-taking and experimentation. This essay examines the dissonance between these generative and stigmatized paradigms of failure, and it offers ideas for better negotiating this dissonance. After conceptualizing the two paradigms, I examine various factors that reinforce failure’s stigmatization. I emphasize precarious meritocracy, a neoliberal ethos driven by hypercompetitive individualism that makes success a zero-sum game, and that causes especially significant harms on students who are already socially stigmatized. Efforts to ameliorate paradigm dissonance tend to focus on changing student dispositions or lowering the stakes of failure. I instead propose wise interventions that include analyzing the systemic roots of stigmatized failure and making failure a more communal experience. I then briefly address the systemic transformations necessary to cultivate generative failure more broadly.


2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepak Pandit ◽  
Maheshkumar P. Joshi ◽  
Shalini Rahul Tiwari

The field of entrepreneurship is gaining acceptability among the youth of India. While the initiation, funding and success and failure of a start-up have been studied extensively, the entrepreneurial ecosystem that support, nurture and prepare entrepreneurs requires further examination. One such component of this ecosystem is the institutes of higher education that play a crucial role in preparing the future entrepreneurs of India. Though there seems to be a need for education programmes specifically designed to expand students’ skills in entrepreneurship, there is limited research on the entrepreneurial intention (EI) of students in India. In this article, we discuss the impact of implicit and explicit ways through which the entrepreneurship education in the institutes of higher education can influence EI among students in India. On the basis of the extant literature, the focus of this article is anchored in the four different aspects of EI among students: (a) Ability to have a grand vision (GVS); (b) Intentions to exploit opportunities (OEX); (c) Perseverance and operational focus (POF) and (d) Willingness to take risk (RST). In general, it is observed that the presence of EI is greater among students pursuing major in studies on entrepreneurship, whereas business students are mostly trained towards exploring the risk-taking component of EI.


Author(s):  
Кукукина ◽  
Irina Kukukina ◽  
Климова ◽  
S. Klimova

The scientific publication is devoted to development of the theory of interested parties, improvement of methods of assessment of economic stability of economic entities and enterprise risk taking into account unproductive expenses and the "idle" capital of owners in market economy. It is recommended to teachers of higher education institutions, graduate students, masters, heads and experts analytical services.


2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seddigheh Khorshid ◽  
Amir Mehdiabadi

PurposeThis study explores the effect of organizational identification (OID) on organizational innovativeness (OINN) in universities and higher education institutions (HEIs) of Iran, mediated by organizational risk-taking capability (ORTC).Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire was designed and distributed in universities and HEIs in three geographical regions of Iran. The sample includes deans of faculties, their assistants, and heads of departments, and heads, assistants, and employees of research and education offices. The authors determined the reliability and validity of the scales and used structural equation modeling to develop the conceptual model and to test hypothesized relationships.FindingsThe results show that the OID has a positive impact on the ORTC and OINN in universities and HEIs of Iran. Furthermore, the ORTC played a partially mediating role between the OID and OINN.Research limitations/implicationsThis study can lead to a theory of the effect of the OID on the OINN in higher education (HE) system, mediated by the ORTC. It can support practitioners working in the HE system as they create a climate that welcomes uncertainties, ambiguities, failures and mistakes in a risk-taking spirit and develop an innovation culture open to new things and generate ideas. Such a culture is rooted in a distinct organizational identity. The researchers recommend that the promising results of this study be pursued in a larger sample and also in universities and HEIs of other countries.Originality/valueThis study develops an understanding of the role of the OID with the university in fostering, enhancing and embedding the ORTC into university, and as a result, promoting its innovativeness culture.


Author(s):  
Sulastri Sulastri ◽  
Zakaria Wahab ◽  
Vieronica Varbi Sununianti

THE RELEVANCY BETWEEN LEARNING MATERIALS AND METHODS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP LEARNING PROCESS IN HIGHER EDUCATION.   Sulastri Management, Faculty of Economics, UniversitasSriwijaya   ZakariaWahab Management, Faculty of Economics, UniversitasSriwijaya   VieronicaVarbiSununianti, S.Sos, M.Si Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Politics, UniverstiasSriwijaya   ABSTRACT   Entrepreneurship program has become a national policy that is believed to be a tool to reduce unemployment and poverty. Therefore, entrepreneurship has become a national curriculum in almost every study program and has incorporated entrepreneurship module as one of the subjects in achieving learning outcome and graduate profile. The terms in entrepreneurship are also growing, with the aim of establishing a social construction towards the understanding of entrepreneurship as a science, which contains elements of knowledge, skills and attitudes. Besides, entrepreneurship construct that need to be built in the learning process is very complex and involves multiple disciplines, so it is important to study empirically the relevancy between learning materials and methods in entrepreneurship learning process in higher education. This study aims to examine whether there are differences in the learning materials and methods in entrepreneurial learning at higher education level. The research is carried out in several public and private universities with a sample of 304 students from some courses both for the field of sciences and social studies that have entrepreneurship as one of their taught modules. It can be concluded that entrepreneurial learning materials can be grouped in the aspect of (1) knowledge; (2) skills and (3) attitude. In each aspect, the learning materials are collected and grouped and observed on itslearning methodology. The results by using Anova testing show that there are differences in some teaching materials and learning methods in the same faculty or inter- faculty at several universities. Furthermore, in the cognitive construction of the entrepreneurship metaphor (innovation, creative, proactive and risk -taking), it is found that it has not been delivered usingrelevant learning methods, as well as learning models of personal development.   Keywords : Teaching materials , Methods of learning , Entrepreneurship   Relevansi Materi dan Metode Dalam Proses Pembelajaran Kewirausahaan PadaTingkat  Pendidikan Tinggi   Sulastri Program StudiManajemenFakultasEkonomiUniversitasSriwijaya Email : [email protected]   ZakariaWahab Program StudiManajemenFakultasEkonomiUniversitasSriwijaya & VieronicaVarbiSununianti, S.Sos, M.Si JurusanSosiologi, FISIP, UniversitasSriwijaya   RINGKASAN Program kewirausahaan telah menjadi kebijakan nasional yang diyakini sebagai alat untuk mengurangi tingkat pengangguran dan kemiskinan. Implikasinya, kewirausahaan telah menjadi kurikulum nasional di hampir disetiap program studi dan telah memasukkan mata kewirausahaan sebagai salah satu mata kuliah untuk mencapai tujuan learning ooutcome dan profil lulusan. Istilah-istilah kewirausahan juga semakin berkembang, dengan tujuan untuk membangun konstruksi sosial terhadap pemahaman kewirausahaan sebagai suatu ilmu yang mengandung unsur pengetahuan, keterampilan dan sikap. Disamping itu konstruk kewirausaahan yang akan dibangun dalam proses pembelajaran sangat kompleks dan melibatkan beberapa disiplin ilmu, sehingga penting untuk diteliti secara empirik bagaimana RelevansiMateridanMetodePembelajaranKewirausahaanPada Tingkat  Pendidikan Tinggi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji apakah terdapat perbedaan materi dan metode dalam pembelajaran kewirausahaan pada level pendidikantinggi. Penelitian dilakukan terhadap beberapa perguruan tinggi negeri dan swasta dengan 304 sampel mahasiswa dari beberapa program studibaikuntukbidangeksaktamaupunsosial yang menyelenggarakanmatakuliahkewirausahaan. Dari hasil penelitiandi simpulkan materi pembelajaran kewirausahaan dapat dikelompokkan pada aspek (1) pengetahuan (2) keterampilan dan (3) aspek sikap. Pada masing-masing aspek dikumpulkan materi yang diajarkan dan dikelompokkan serta bagaimana metode pembelajarannya. Hasil penelitian dengan pengujian teknik Anova menunjukkan, terdapat perbedaan beberapa mataeri ajar dan metode belajar dalam fakultas yang sama maupun antar fakultas pada beberapa universitas. Demikian juga dalam konstruksi kognitif terhadap metaphora entreprenurship (keinovasian, kreatif, proaktif dan risk taking) menunjukkan belum diantarkan dengan metode belajar yang relevan, sebagaimana mod(l-model pembelajaran pengembangan personal.   Kata kunci :materi ajar, metode belajar, konstruk kewirausahaan  


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