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Zeleke Worku, Tshwane University of Technology, South AfricaAbstract
The study shows the relationship between educational curriculum and social entrepreneurship. The study was conducted by gathering data from 432 emerging business enterprises operating in townships and locations in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Entrepreneurial skills were measured by using a composite index consisting of 5 dimensions. These 5 dimensions are talent for creativity (measured by using 3 items), willingness to take reasonable risk (measured by using 12 items), efficiency in responding to business opportunities (measured by using 15 items), business leadership quality (measured by using 18 items), and efficiency in taking advantage of programmes of assistance that are offered to emerging SMMEs by the South African Government (measured by using 11 items). The scales used for measuring entrepreneurial skills were adapted from similar work done by Z. Worku (2018) in the textile industry of Tshwane, South Africa. The results showed that about 70% of participants had satisfactory entrepreneurial skills, whereas the remaining 30% of participants did not. Regression coefficients and goodness-of-fit statistics obtained from structural equations modelling (Hoyle, 2023) showed that the level of entrepreneurial skills was significantly influenced by 3 factors. These 3 factors were ownership of business, long duration of business operation (6 years or longer) and the ability to use business intelligence methods to gather information about business decisions and activities carried out by rivals and competitors.
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Conference: WCE2026Stream: Education
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Worku Z. (2026) An Explanatory Study of Social Entrepreneurship and Educational Curriculum ISSN: 2760-7259 The Washington DC Conference on Education 2026: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 111-126) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2760-7259.2026.11
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2760-7259.2026.11
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