Reimagining entrepreneurship education in the Anthropocene. A critical posthuman practice approach

Abstract

<p>As entrepreneurship education (EE) faces mounting pressure to respond to the socio-ecological polycrisis of the Anthropocene, prevailing human-centred, business growth-oriented pedagogies appear increasingly insufficient. This conceptual manuscript advances a critical posthuman practice approach to entrepreneurship education that foregrounds multispecies relationality, response-ability, and ethical co-becoming. Building on entrepreneurship-as-practice scholarship, and drawing in particular on a critical posthumanist practice approach, we extend emerging calls to rethink entrepreneurship (and EE) beyond anthropocentrism by translating multispecies thinking into educational practice. Drawing on illustrative examples from posthuman and eco-relational pedagogies in higher education we develop a set of propositions for a multispecies entrepreneurship pedagogy to reimagine EE as embodied, situated, and relational, involving both human and more-than-human actors as co-participants.</p><p><br>We argue that such a pedagogy can cultivate response-able entrepreneurs oriented toward ecological justice, care, and multispecies flourishing. The manuscript contributes to entrepreneurship-education-as-practice by offering a novel theoretical framing and concrete pedagogical orientations for post-anthropocentric futures.</p>