Risk-taking abilities for everyone? Finnish entrepreneurship education and the enterprising selves imagined by pupils

Gender and Education

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 631-649

  Komulainen, Katri ^a   Korhonen, Maija ^a   Räty, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Class; Ender; Enterprising self; Entrepreneurship education; Neo liberalism; Pupils' narratives

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649098660     PISSN: 09540253     EISSN: 13600516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540250802680032     Document Type: Article

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