K-12 Institutions Shaping Future Entrepreneurs In A VUCA World
Abstract
Pandemic has proven that “necessity is the mother of invention”. Digitalization existed before the pandemic, but new dimensions accelerated during and post-COVID-19. The education sector was one of the biggest verticals that was impacted. K-12 education underwent challenges, thus online education platforms and new pedagogy with advanced teaching aids and new learning approaches emerged. It was soon realized that in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous (VUCA) world, education had to play a vital role. These would be future entrepreneurs who might play an integrative role as teacherpreneurs.
Until now, K-12 institutions have been focusing on neuro-based education while developing different concepts around the subject. Today, the time has come to support VUCA readiness. Most K12 institutions don’t have the resources or capabilities to provide entrepreneurial education. These K-12 institutions must deliberate on their curriculum along with the teaching pedagogies. With this the authors set with a premise to respond to the research question “are K-12 institutions shaping future entrepreneurs in a VUCA world?’. To investigate this purpose Superhouse Education Foundation from Kanpur City in Northern India was chosen as a test bed. It comprises of eight Delhi Public Schools as a Franchisee spread over four cities, Kanpur, Lucknow, Bareilly, and Saharanpur. The other is Allen House Public Schools which has six branches spread over cities like Kanpur, Lucknow, Jhansi, and Ghaziabad. These cohorts were chosen as a part of qualitative research in building a response to the principal research question.
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