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Discomfort as an entrepreneurship professor: modeling empathy and intellectual humility

In: Annals of Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy - 2025

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  • Johann Ducharme

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Entrepreneurship as a discipline is ripe to include strategic and necessary elements of character education. This chapter argues for why professors should teach for character, specifically empathy and intellectual humility, and how to do so via an entrepreneurship pedagogy by modeling the virtues that faculty expect of their students and using discomfort to enhance the learning process. Empathy and intellectual humility are central to engaged learning in an entrepreneurship classroom because they model for undergraduates how to respond to failure, perspective-taking, and life-long learning. The cultivation of university students’ character is laden with discomfort, not dissimilar to practicing the craft of entrepreneurship.

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  • Johann Ducharme, 2025. "Discomfort as an entrepreneurship professor: modeling empathy and intellectual humility," Chapters, in: Susana C. Santos & Sharon A. Simmons (ed.), Annals of Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy - 2025, chapter 19, pages 314-319, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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