| Abstract | Entrepreneurship education seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to
encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings. Variations of entrepreneurship education are
offered at all levels of schooling from primary, secondary schools and through tertiary or graduate
university programs. Entrepreneurial education has a big role to play in revolutionizing the way
education builds the learners for a world of work. Entrepreneurial education prepares school-leavers
for work as entrepreneurial education must include skill-building courses in negotiation, leadership,
new product development, creative thinking, exposure to technological innovation (McMullan &
Long, 1987: Vesper & McMullen, 1988; King, 2001; Honig, 2004). It is further argued that
entrepreneurial education should instill in the learners awareness of entrepreneur career options
(Donckels, 1991; Hills, 1988; Kuratko, 2004). Therefore, teachers and students should embrace
hands-on teaching and learning for that recognizes certain desirable outcomes and endorses studentcentered
instructional approaches. Research has confirmed many of the seemingly intuitive benefits of
hands-on learning and has also documented a variety of unanticipated benefits to the learners long
after schooling.
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