Integration of Entrepreneurship into Higher Education (Educational Sciences) in Lithuania and Latvia: Students and University Teachers’ Opinion

Melnikova Julija (), Norbert Grünwald (), Ahrens Andreas () and Zaščerinska Jeļena ()
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Melnikova Julija: Klaipeda University, Klaipeda, Lithuania
Ahrens Andreas: Hochschule Wismar, Wismar, Germany
Zaščerinska Jeļena: Centre for Education and Innovation Research, Riga, Latvia

Balkan Region Conference on Engineering and Business Education, 2017, vol. 3, issue 1, 159-166

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to highlight the aspects of integration of entrepreneurship into higher education (Educational sciences) in Lithuania and Latvia. The article examines the nature of challenges for entrepreneurial teaching and learning as well as provides some insights received form students and university teachers on how to improve the entrepreneurship-based teaching and learning in the universities of Lithuania and Latvia. The article describes the empirical study, which explored 32 student and 16 university lectures’ opinion on entrepreneurship in Educational sciences. The implications of the article could be useful for university educators, who seek to educate students more effectively with a real intention to become entrepreneurs.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial teaching and learning; Higher education; Educational sciences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/cplbu-2017-0022

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