Entrepreneurship Education and Social Justice: The Unexpected Connection

Abstract

Social justice is a key goal of education in the United States. However, entrepreneurship - and therefore entrepreneurship education - typically are viewed as the antitheses of social justice. It is the purpose of this paper to show that not only are the goals of social justice and entrepreneurship education capable of simultaneous realization but also to argue that entrepreneurship education is a viable and even potent economic access strategy for enabling a social justice agenda. The paper is divided into three parts: 1) Social Justice as Fair Access to Economic Opportunity; 2) Benefits of Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurship Education for Achieving Economic Access and Mobility; and 3) Listening to Youth: Entrepreneurship and Incorporating Entrepreneurship Education into School Curricula.