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Are the Teachers and Students Satisfied: Sustainable Development Mode of Entrepreneurship Education in Chinese Universities?

Frontiers in Psychology
Journal · Vol. 11 · Art. 1738
Abstract

Entrepreneurship education plays an important role in sustainable development. Chinese governmental agencies are making all-out efforts to promote schoolwide entrepreneurship education from top to bottom to achieve sustainable economic and social development. This is a phenomenon worth studying and summarizing. Improving the satisfaction degree of teachers and students of entrepreneurship education in universities for sustainable development becomes a typical mode of entrepreneurship education in Chinese universities. The data are derived from 12,269 valid questionnaires in student volume and 1,241 valid questionnaires in teacher volume from top universities in China, and regression and variance analyses were applied. The results show that the overall satisfaction of teachers and students is higher than the national average. There are significant differences in the overall satisfaction of different types of teachers and students. Teachers are most satisfied with the organizational leadership measures of the universities in entrepreneurship education and least satisfied with the lack of professional human resource management strategies for entrepreneurship education teachers. Students are most satisfied with entrepreneurship policy and least satisfied with entrepreneurship learning, especially that entrepreneurship theory learning and practice learning are closely combined with students’ majors. The overall satisfaction of students of entrepreneurship education mainly comes from the influence of “entrepreneurship policy dividend,” entrepreneurship learning, and entrepreneurship competition and entrepreneurship practice, which go hand in hand. The overall satisfaction of teachers is most affected by the satisfaction of organizational leadership, followed by the satisfaction of mechanism guarantee and teaching management. This study introduces the sustainable development model of entrepreneurship education in top Chinese universities through the improvement of satisfaction of entrepreneurship education and has certain reference significance for managers and teachers of entrepreneurship education practice in other developing countries. © Copyright © 2020 Huang, Liu and An.

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Entrepreneurship education Higher education Satisfaction Sustainable development Empirical study Universities Quality

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College of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
Funding & Acknowledgements
Grant: 20JDZD043
The authors would like to thank the editor and reviewers whose suggestions and comments greatly helped to improve and clarify the manuscript. Funding. This research was funded by the Zhejiang Province Philosophy Social Science Key Research Base (China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Research Institute of Wenzhou Medical University) project results (Grant Number: 20JDZD043) and the Wenzhou Social Science Planning Project (Grant Number: 19WSK084).
Grant: 19WSK084
The authors would like to thank the editor and reviewers whose suggestions and comments greatly helped to improve and clarify the manuscript. Funding. This research was funded by the Zhejiang Province Philosophy Social Science Key Research Base (China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Research Institute of Wenzhou Medical University) project results (Grant Number: 20JDZD043) and the Wenzhou Social Science Planning Project (Grant Number: 19WSK084).
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