Listening to Leaders

Abstract

Entrepreneurship education in primary and secondary schools has the potential to foster student creativity and innovation and to support learning that recognises opportunities in a dynamic and challenging global community. This chapter provides a background to recent research in entrepreneurship education and school leadership, which are vital to fostering successful student learning, and proposes researchers utilise a Delphi method to gain insights from local community entrepreneurship leaders given their understanding of the local context. These community experts are able to identify locally relevant ways to deliver entrepreneurship education and schools that are known to exemplify successful models. The Delphi method is adaptable for both quantitative and qualitative research and offers the potential for mixed research for targeted deeper inquiry into the vital role of leaders in model entrepreneurship education schools. Recommendations are made for both researchers and school leaders to develop an understanding of the local context for entrepreneurship with a Delphi study.