Training Female Entrepreneurs: A Self-Governed or Tutor-Driven Learning Process?

Proskunina, Uliana; Moehring, Juliane; Schneider, Kaethe; Storch, Monika

doi:10.20472/te.2019.7.1.006

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“…EFL teachers are encouraged to experiment with activities such as individual conferences and small group conferences in designing activities to promote entrepreneurship (Aljonani, 2015;Finnish Ministry of Education, 2004;European Commission, 2004;Komulainen, Korhonen, & Räty, 2009;Proskunina, Moehring, Schneider, & Storch, 2019), for example, in language classrooms. These activities would provide students with opportunities to share their observations and perceptions of social change, which might help students define and articulate their visions and take a real look at their future selves, through connecting their current self to their adult possible future self (Nurra & Oyserman, 2018).…”

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Gendered Visions of Ideal Future Selves: an Analysis of Japanese English as a Foreign Language Learners’ Narratives

Munezane¹

2021

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This study investigates the impact of gender on future visions, using a mixed narrative method; i.e., a “drawing-and-writing-combined” narrative. Previous research shows that learners’ career aspirations have a positive effect on their academic achievement including language proficiency growth (Sasaki, Kozaki, & Ross, 2017). Therefore, it is worthwhile to explore the impact of gender on language learners’ future possible selves by examining their career visions. Qualitative data were collected from 155 Japanese university English as a Foreign Language learners’ drawings and English essays. Statistical results (chi-square test) revealed gender effects in participants’ visualizations of career-focused and career-family balanced ideal selves as well as in the prominence of social interaction in their future visions. Qualitative analysis of participants’ essays suggested that the majority of both male and female learners envisaged their future ideal selves actively pursuing an international career empowered by the essential tool of English. Overall, females considered combining family and career as due responsibilities for women, whereas the majority of males envisioned career-related ideal selves only. The study further assesses the impact of gender on learners’ future visions by taking into consideration the gender equality level in a particular society. Pedagogical implications and future directions are discussed.

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Gendered Visions of Ideal Future Selves: an Analysis of Japanese English as a Foreign Language Learners’ Narratives

Munezane¹

2021

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Learning Analytics to Explore Dropout in Online Entrepreneurship Education

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Schneider³

2020

PSYCH

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The technological disruption of E-Learning offers Entrepreneurship Education (EE) an unprecedented opportunity to leverage the affordances of web 2.0 and to widen the scope of entrepreneurship educational programs. However, in practice, high dropout rates in online courses (near 90%) pose major challenges to EE researchers. In this paper, we use learning analytics to explore the case of dropout during a female-oriented online entrepreneurship educational program. We observed that the evolution of dropouts and learning behavior of the participants in this program is not linear in time. Persistence decays in a two-step process: The first dropout phase reaches approximately 30% before the middle of the program and then stabilizes around that number. A second dropout phase is triggered in the last quarter of the program and it continues declining until the end of the program. This dropout pattern corresponds to the interaction indicators at aggregated level: Before the middle of the program the level of interaction drops together with the number of active users. However, the reduction in the interaction frequency is disproportionate in relation to the fall of number of the active users. After dividing by the percentage of active users the number of interactions still drops before the middle of the program. Using social network analysis (SNA) we show that initial dropouts have a considerable effect on the connectivity of the communication network, this is consistent with the observed decrease in social interactions. We also found significant correlations between entrepreneurial competencies and indicators of learning behavior and persistence, at the individual level. In line with the relevant literature, the most significant feature associated with persistent behavior was found to be the risk-taking orientation. Our findings suppose the first step towards an empirical model of persistence in Entrepreneurship Education online programs providing valuable insights for future research and for developing retention methods in online courses.

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Training Female Entrepreneurs: A Self-Governed or Tutor-Driven Learning Process?

Cited by 2 publications

References 34 publications

Gendered Visions of Ideal Future Selves: an Analysis of Japanese English as a Foreign Language Learners’ Narratives

Gendered Visions of Ideal Future Selves: an Analysis of Japanese English as a Foreign Language Learners’ Narratives

Learning Analytics to Explore Dropout in Online Entrepreneurship Education

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