<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Sprouting Entrepreneurs is a three-year teaching programme for rural primary and secondary schools that focuses on entrepreneurship in agriculture. It addresses the South African real-life challenges of food insecurity, youth unemployment and rural poverty from a classroom perspective, by linking agriculture, food and entrepreneurship as main learning areas. This paper outlines the programme in its local social and economic context. It argues for the need for a concept of entrepreneurship education that views opportunities in the context of young people’s positive freedoms. Its didactical model combines the EntreComp framework with the capability approach developed by Amartya Sen and others. It emphasises the role of capabilities or freedoms in developing and implementing ideas that create value for others. The Sustainable Development Goals form a medium of learning.</p></abstract>

Sprouting Entrepreneurs is a three-year teaching programme for rural primary and secondary schools that focuses on entrepreneurship in agriculture. It addresses the South African real-life challenges of food insecurity, youth unemployment and rural poverty from a classroom perspective, by linking agriculture, food and entrepreneurship as main learning areas. This paper outlines the programme in its local social and economic context. It argues for the need for a concept of entrepreneurship education that views opportunities in the context of young people’s positive freedoms. Its didactical model combines the EntreComp framework with the capability approach developed by Amartya Sen and others. It emphasises the role of capabilities or freedoms in developing and implementing ideas that create value for others. The Sustainable Development Goals form a medium of learning.

A Capability Approach to Entrepreneurship Education: The Sprouting Entrepreneurs Programme in Rural South African Schools

Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education

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Sprouting Entrepreneurs is a three-year teaching programme for rural primary and secondary schools that focuses on entrepreneurship in agriculture. It...

A Capability Approach to Entrepreneurship Education: The Sprouting Entrepreneurs Programme in Rural South African Schools

Published Online: May 13, 2020

Page range: 119 - 133

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/dcse-2020-0011

Keywords
entrepreneurship education, marginalised schools, capability competence, capability approach, EntreComp framework, education for sustainable development, youth unemployment, school gardening, South Africa, Eastern Cape

© 2020 Matthias Forcher-Mayr et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A Capability Approach to Entrepreneurship Education: The Sprouting Entrepreneurs Programme in Rural South African Schools

Published Online: May 13, 2020

Page range: 119 - 133

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/dcse-2020-0011

Keywordsentrepreneurship education, marginalised schools, capability competence, capability approach, EntreComp framework, education for sustainable development, youth unemployment, school gardening, South Africa, Eastern Cape

© 2020 Matthias Forcher-Mayr et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
entrepreneurship education, marginalised schools, capability competence, capability approach, EntreComp framework, education for sustainable development, youth unemployment, school gardening, South Africa, Eastern Cape