Re‐storying an entrepreneurial identity: education, experience and self‐narrative

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to explore the ways in which entrepreneurship education may serve as an identity workspace.

Design/methodology/approach

This is a conceptual/theoretical paper based on previously completed empirical work.

Findings

The paper makes the connection between worldmaking, experience, action and identity.

Practical implications

The paper furthers understanding of entrepreneurship education and its potential effect on the identity of participants. It stresses the importance of offering entrepreneurship education participants the opportunity to take entrepreneurial action. It has implications for the existing state of entrepreneurship education, e.g. the focus on business plans in the absence of an exploration of the identity of participants.

Originality/value

The paper is an original exploration of the linkage between entrepreneurship education and identity and has implications for both pedagogy and practice.

Citation

Harmeling, S.S. (2011), "Re‐storying an entrepreneurial identity: education, experience and self‐narrative", Education + Training, Vol. 53 No. 8/9, pp. 741-749. https://doi.org/10.1108/00400911111185053