Designing a social entrepreneurship curriculum model in higher education based on the Acker Pattern

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

seiedehfatemeh hosseini ¹ , majid aliasgari ² , Abbas Gholtash ³ , Fatemeh Ahmadbeigi ⁴

1 - PhD. Student of Education.Humanity siencess, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran branch, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran|Visiting Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Curriculum Studies, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Fars, Iran.
4 - Department of Education.Humanity siencess, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran branch, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2021-08-24 Accepted : 2022-05-24 Published : 2022-05-22

Keywords: entrepreneurship, Curriculum, socialentrepreneurship, Higher Education,

Abstract :

Today, higher education centers, especially in developed countries, in addition to their primary role of teaching and promoting science and expanding research, should include other activities in their work program and among the goals of the university to establish closer ties with the community around them. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to design a model of social entrepreneurship curriculum in higher education, which was designed using the model of the ten elements of Acker. This research is a qualitative research that was done by deductive content analysis and open and axial coding. Participants included 4 groups of social entrepreneurs, faculty members of entrepreneurship, curriculum planning and sociology who were interviewed using semi-structured interviews with validated validity and snowball technique and theoretical saturation. Then, using the opinion of 7 social entrepreneurship experts and curriculum planners, the obtained model was validated and at the end, the final model of social entrepreneurship curriculum in higher education was designed And compiled based on model of Acker curriculum.

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