Philosophy theory into Entrepreneurial education Practice: A holistic model

In the entrepreneurial education field, the “perfect” program of teachingentrepreneurship has been largely debated. In this paper, provocatively, we usedonly different philosophical thoughts in order to reconstruct a holistic pedagogicalmodel suitable for entrepreneurial education. The model is based on two famousphilosophical dichotomies, respectively the Kantian opposition of freedom versusdeterminism and the Aristotelian division into praxis and poiesis. These elements,specifically adapted to an entrepreneurial context, may lead educators and curriculadevelopers in the “tangle forest” of contents and skills that should be transferred tostudents. In particular the model offers an easy tool that clearly defines areas ofintervention to teach entrepreneurship. The final scope is to offer simultaneouslyappealing to students concerning entrepreneurial activities, as desirability, and toolsfor such activities as feasibility, articulated in two degrees of outcomes: oneinternal, as conduct and experience, and one pragmatic.