Service Learning in Entrepreneurship Education

Abstract

This paper is a pilot study exploring the effect of service-learning pedagogy on entrepreneurial identity, entrepreneurship self-efficacy beliefs, and entrepreneurial intention. By acting as participant-observers in three successive semesters of an entrepreneurship for-non business majors course, the authors utilized grounded theory to determine whether service-learning had a mediating effect on the three above variables. Results are encouraging as to the positive correlation between service-learning and students’ entrepreneurial development. Further research in this area is warranted.

Keywords: Qualitative, Motivation/Intention, Entrepreneurial Orientation