Nafiseh Rafiei, Mohammad Hossein Yarmohammadian, Narges Keshtiaray
This paper presents a novel conceptual model based on the components of entrepreneurship education required for the students of the humanities in Iran’s universities. Using the Prisma method, 42 articles out of 120 scientific publications were selected as the main resources of this research for the duration of 2007 to 2017. This model was constructed by investigating the goals and content of entrepreneurship education in higher education from the selected articles and utilizing a qualitative content analysis method. The content analysis method used in this model is based on a deductive thematic approach in which a non-constructed matrix was applied for induction and creating new categories.
Based on our findings, the main components of entrepreneurship education for humanities in higher education were identified. These components are background competencies (including conceptual and communicational competencies), core competencies (including managerial and business competencies) and entrepreneurship enablers (including individual competencies). The results of this research indicate that there is a succession of faulty cycle in entrepreneurship education approaches as a mere subject or activity and neglect of the transcendental concept of entrepreneurship education instead of business education. Therefore, the proposed model in this research could correct the identified defective cycle in entrepreneurship education for students of the humanities.