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1. Introduction: why do we need a pedagogy of entrepreneuring?
Reconsidering what we teach and who will our students become
The dual functions of education are to promote the actualization of one’s
potential and to prepare one for the coming society. However, how to actualize such
pedagogical design is majorly determined by our knowledge of humans and of the
society, which is deeply embedded in the different human images and produced by
multiple operation of power/knowledge. In a certain sense, contemporary (higher)
education is operated with the model of neo-liberal theories of ‘human capital’ in which
human labor turns into capital which is to be selectively invested. The state is also
interested in such bio-political intervention from the point of view of securing national
competitiveness. That is, in order to realize the principle of adding value, the labor
subject eventually turns into the ‘competency machine in whom resources are invested
and from whom income must be produced’ (Weiskopf, 2007:144).