Entreprenöriellt lärande : En diskursanalys – Verklighet, projektarbete, mottagare

This is a study of the phenomenon enterprise education in a Swedish school. Enterprise education is a rather new concept in Swedish schools, and it has yet to be clearly defined and sufficiently studied. In order to investigate the various aspects of the education properly an analysis of the language used by its proponents needs to be performed. The authors have used discourse analysis from a perspective provided by Laclau and Mouffe. This is for the purpose of determining how the phenomenon is expressed by four teachers in the school mentioned previously. A critical perspective has been adopted in analyzing the results. A few key elements in the analysis have appeared to justify the education: reality, projects and receiver. Other important concepts are motivation, interest, responsibility, creativity, activity and enterprising. The didactic implications are that one should be aware of the potential pitfalls in the strong rhetoric employed to justify the education