"Not Everyone is Cut Out to be the Entrepreneur Type": How Finnish School Teachers Construct the Meaning of Entrepreneurship Education and the Related Abilities of the Pupils

Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-19

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

abilities; entrepreneurship education; exclusion; inclusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856986269     PISSN: 00313831     EISSN: 14701170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00313831.2011.567393     Document Type: Article

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