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Developing Entrepreneurial Intentions among the Youth: An Innovative Pedagogy based on Experiential Learning

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This study intends to develop a new pedagogical model for inculcating entrepreneurial intentions among youth by synthesizing the principles of experimental learning, storytelling, improvisation, stress-stimulating training and knowledge transfer approach. The paper is the outcome of an elaborate review of the previous researches in the domain of entrepreneurship education. The proposed model is centred around the reflections of individual’s unique experiences and the resultant storytelling blended with stress stimulation by infusing simultaneous rival arguments from other participants. The model further fosters entrepreneurial intentions by using the pedagogy of script-less stage performance according to their spontaneous ideas without any bearing on available theoretical framework. The approach focuses on the immediate flash thoughts of individuals without giving any space for logical thinking in an environment with enough chance for using their intuition guiding action in a spontaneous way. Using the principles of improvisation in a non-traditional learning platform, participants are encouraged to use their spontaneity, ingenuity and inventive thinking. This pedagogy,  supplemented with the traditional method based on science component teaching,  can be used for revamping entrepreneurship education with an inbuilt inculcation of entrepreneurial intentions  among entrepreneurial aspirants.

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  1. Marian International Institute of Management, Kuttikkanam, Kerala, India

    Vincent Varghese

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    Princy Thomas

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Varghese, V., Philip, P. (2017). Developing Entrepreneurial Intentions among the Youth: An Innovative Pedagogy based on Experiential Learning. In: Manimala, M., Thomas, P. (eds) Entrepreneurship Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3319-3_12

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