Beyond competences : understanding sustainable entrepreneurship education in primary school contexts
(2026)
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- (en) This thesis investigates sustainable entrepreneurship education beyond competence-based approaches. While competence frameworks occupy a central place in the field, this work shifts attention beyond these prescriptive frameworks to focus on the practices and value dynamics through which sustainable entrepreneurial action takes shape in educational contexts. Combining conceptual and empirical perspectives, the thesis is structured around three complementary essays. The first critically examines existing competence frameworks in sustainable entrepreneurship education, identifying four major conceptual and pedagogical limitations and proposing directions for making them more actionable. The second and third essays draw on the same ethnographic multiple case study in primary schools. The second opens the “black box” of sustainable entrepreneurship education by showing that sustainable entrepreneurial action emerges through relational, embodied, sociomaterial, and situated configurations of practices. It further identifies five interrelated factors that influence how these configurations take shape in educational settings. The third examines how values are enacted, combined, and transformed through sustainable entrepreneurial action. It highlights specific pedagogical arrangements through which multiple value registers are activated and articulated, sometimes supporting self-formation. Together, the three essays contribute to rethinking sustainable entrepreneurship education beyond competence-based approaches by showing that sustainable entrepreneurial action cannot be reduced to a set of competences but takes shape through situated practices and value dynamics. In doing so, they offer a more grounded, process-oriented understanding of sustainable entrepreneurship education and provide directions for pedagogical approaches better aligned with contemporary sustainability challenges.
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Anastasia, S. (2026). Beyond competences : understanding sustainable entrepreneurship education in primary school contexts. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/279775