Experiential Learning for Entrepreneurship

Denis Hyams-Ssekasi is a Research Coordinator and Lecturer in Business Management at the University of Bolton, UK. He has developed and delivered modules on entrepreneurship, ran several mentoring schemes and offered consultancy to start-up businesses, especially in developing countries. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.Elizabeth F. Caldwell is an Academic Skills Tutor at the University of Huddersfield, UK, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  She received her PhD from University College London and her current research interests revolve around the theory and practice of higher education, including a comparative approach to discipline specific pedagogies.

• Part I. Experiential Learning in Education.- Chapter 1. Experiential Learning Philosophies of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education; Michael Breum Ramsgaard.- Chapter 2. Assessing Experiential Entrepreneurship Education:  Key Insights from Five Methods in Use at a Venture Creation Program; Martin Lackéus and Karen Williams Middleton.- Chapter 3. Enterprise Simulation Gaming: Effective Practices for SimVenture Classic and VentureBlocks; Naveed Yasin and Khalid Hafeez.- Chapter 4. An Exploration of Experiential Education as a Catalyst for Future Entrepreneurs; Denis Hyams-Ssekasi and Elizabeth F. Caldwell.- Chapter 5. An Appreciation of the Stakeholder Impact in an Enterprise Education Experiential Learning Event: ‘The Enterprise Challenge,’ a Case Story from Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland; Joan Scott, Bobby Mackie, Robert Smith and Judy Crooks.- Chapter 6. Embedding Interdisciplinary and Challenge-led Learning into the Student Experience; Jess Power.- Chapter 7. An Holistic Approach to the Delivery of Effective Enterprise Education; Veronica Scuotto and Alan Murray.- Part II. Experiential Learning in the World of Work.- Chapter 8. Experiential Learning in Entrepreneurial Families: Lessons from Mexico; Mariana Estrada-Robles.- Chapter 9. Learning from a Premium Dining Restaurant to Implement a Delight Strategy in a Bar / Grill: Applying Experiential Learning; David Bamber and Clay Gransden.- Chapter 10. Do Intrapreneurs Learn by Doing?; Maria de Lurdes Calisto.- Chapter 11. Understanding Organizational Values through Experiential Learning; David Bamber and Steve Harding.- Chapter 12. Experiential Learning through the Transformational Incubation Programme: A Case study from Accra, Ghana; Stephen Dobson, Gideon Maas, Paul Jones and Joan Lockyer.- Chapter 13. When Pedagogic Worlds Collide: Reflections on a Pan-European Entrepreneurship Education project Kate Penney, Dimitris Bibikas, Tim Vorley,  and Robert Wapshott.