美国高校社会创业教育刍议

Social Entrepreneurship Education in American Universities

社会创业是近几年社会中出现的最重要和最具影响力的思想之一,它的出现几乎对每所著名大学在教学理念和实践上都产生了强烈影响。但由于社会创业概念的模糊性,与商业创业的交织性,致使人们容易对社会创业的本质存在一定的误读、误解,甚至成为困扰社会创业主要问题,但是要想把社会创业和商业创业区分开来是件困难的事情,这两者之间存在很多重叠,甚至可以说任何想要在这两者之间划清界限的意图都是徒劳的。不过社会创业教育对于美国研究型大学来说却是新的开始,其促使学生积极参与社会事务、投身社会变革,大学教师也在积极响应社会创业行动,与外部创业组织合作共同解决社会问题成了新态势,结合美国高校大学生社会创业活动具体事例,不难发现其带来的价值是可观的。

Social entrepreneurship is one of the most important and influential ideas in the past few years, and its appearance has a strong influence on the teaching ideas and practice of every prestigious university. However, as the concept of social entrepreneurship is ambiguous and is intertwined with business entrepreneurship, people have some misunderstanding about the nature of social entrepreneurship, which even makes a major problem perplexing social entrepreneurship. It is difficult to distinguish social entrepreneurship from business entrepreneurship as there is a lot of overlap between these two concepts and we can even say that any effort to draw a clear line between them is in vain.Social entrepreneurship education is a new beginning for American research universities, where students are encouraged to actively participate in social affairs and social changes and teachers also actively respond to social entrepreneurship,and cooperate with entrepreneurial organizations to solve social problems, which has actually become a new trend. From the examples of the entrepreneurship activities of American college students, we find it is really worthwhile to involve social entrepreneurship education in college.