1 - Gabriela Troyano Bortoloto Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da Universidade de São Paulo - FEA - São Paulo
Reumo
With the internet being recognized as a learning space fulfilled with opportunities, professors, teachers, or instructors can use their abilities to engage in entrepreneurial activities and make money out of the classroom. Literature has a specific term to refer to professors which are also entrepreneurs “teacherpreneurs” (Berry, 2013; Zeichner, 2013). Teacherpreneurs, with their knowledge and experience, are seen as important channels of innovation in the new educational scenario (Buckley & Nzembayie, 2016).
The main objective of this research is to analyze the motivations for teacherpreneurship around the world and identify the differences among teachers’ experiences with teacherpreneurship.
This research is an exploratory analysis that seeks to understand the phenomenon in depth. The initially proposed data collection method consists of conducting semi-structured interviews with teacherpreneurs in different countries and to organize the answers in a framework of motivators. In a second step, it is aimed to collect quantitative data and analyze the motivators in cluster analysis.
It is expected that this research highlights the factors that contributes to teachearpreneurship in different countries and makes possible to construct a framework of these factors. The results will contribute for entrepreneurship literature and also can be used to governments to create incentives and programs to teachers that have the profile and wants to innovate in the educational context.
Co-authoring
Berry, B. (2013). Teacherpreneurs: A bold brand of teacher leadership for 21st-century teaching and learning. Science.
Brake, D. R. (2014). Are we all online content creators now? Web 2.0 and digital divides. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
Buckley, A. P., & Nzembayie, K. F. (2016). Teacherpreneurs: From Vocation to Innovation. International Conference on Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
Shelton, C. C., & Archambault, L. M. (2019). Who Are Online Teacherpreneurs and What Do They Do? A Survey of Content Creators on TeachersPayTeachers.com.
The internet, being a channel used worldwide, becomes an environment that favors entrepreneurship and innovation. However, when studying about entrepreneurship, little is said about teachers and instructors who enter this area, the so-called “teacherpreneurs”. Considering this context, the main objective of this project is to analyze the motivations for teacherpreneurship around the world and identify the differences among teachers’ experiences with teacherpreneurship. With the collection of qualitative and quantitative data with teacherpreneurs around the world, the results will highlight the factors that contribute to teachingpreneurship in different countries and makes possible to construct a framework to summarize the phenomena.