The “Start-Up” Answer: Examining a Hidden Dramaturgy in Entrepreneurial Learning Beyond the Four Walls of the Classroom

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter, based on findings from an ethnographic field study of entrepreneurship in the realm of non-business educations, combines the logic of effectuation and a narrative discursive perspective, enabling us to see how a certain language of entrepreneurship in use affects the meaning making of students and is perceived by them as counterproductive. The chapter provides insight into normally more hidden sides of student entrepreneurship and analyzes how the “start-up” as grand narrative filters into the micro-processes of students involved in an extracurricular entrepreneurial process. The chapter reflects how language is used as logic, which, however, is also a possibility to choose new pathways in advice, guidance, and training of entrepreneurial expertise among students practicing entrepreneurship.