Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education

Professor : Dr Arabiun

Saeed Neghabi 660188102

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Faculty Entrepreneurship , University of Tehran, Iran

Applying social constructivist idea to study of entrepreneurship

I. A social constructivist analysis privilege individual ,

subjective knowing.

II. consideration is given to social context and environment

within which entrepreneurial activities are being

constructed.

III.Analysis applying constructivist ideas would give

particular attention to linguistics expression or

discursive that are used to construct entrepreneurial

accounts.

Applying social constructivist idea to study of entrepreneurship

Social constructionist ideas and the study of entrepreneurship

I. In contrast to cognitive orientation of social constructivism, social constructionist ideas are more concern with how people come to be and know the world interactively.

II. Research questions are directed towards investigating the dialogic , interpretive, social and relational process through which entrepreneurial activity are constructed.

Social constructionist ideas and the study of entrepreneurship

III. Social constructionist thinkers, in contrast to what many critics claim, do not deny presence of a outside reality.

IV. In applying constructionist ideas and being rational aware in their research, it is insufficient for researchers to claim that they are separate or detached from what is being investigate.

Conclusions:

In this chapter, it has been argued that social

constructivist and constructionist ideas can significantly

aid our understanding of entrepreneurial practices.

Conclusions: social constructionist & constructivist ideas

In Social constructivist, learning and teaching becomes

concerned with the ways in which entrepreneurial activities

are constructed through individual, cognitive process within

a social context.

With social constructionist ideas in mind, the learning,

teaching and research process becomes more concerned with

interrelationship between individual acts of entrepreneurial

agency and cultural, social and opportunity structural

environment.