Entrepreneurial education : mapping debates in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Finland

By studying relevant textual debates in three countries - the United States, the United Kingdom and Finland - this book addresses the problem of a limited understanding regarding entrepreneurship education.

The research concentrates on texts that deal with entrepreneurship education in the context of primary and secondary education.

In addition to an examination of this contested topic, the study also assesses the utility of social cartography as a method to compare national educational debates.

The research approach is qualitative and its overall design is comparative.

Argument analysis and social cartography were employed to pattern data from the national debates.

Rationales for entrepreneurial education are presented in intertextual field as maps of ideas.

The author uses phenomenographic methods to organize the relevant arguments in each national context.