- Title
- Exploring youth unemployment through entrepreneurship education: a case study of Biziniz in the box in Newcastle
- Creator
- Ndlovu, Bonginkosi Siphelele
- Subject
- Youth -- Employment -- South Africa -- KwaZulu Natal
- Subject
- Entrepreneurship -- South Africa -- KwaZulu Natal
- Subject
- Economic development -- South Africa -- KwaZulu Natal
- Date Issued
- 2024-04
- Date
- 2024-04
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/63386
- Identifier
- vital:73267
- Description
- Youth unemployment is a long-standing social and economic issue in South Africa. One possible drive behind the ever-increasing rate of youth unemployment is the school curriculum that is still tainted by the so-called “bantu education” which is training learners to be job seekers rather than job creators. Government-led initiatives have served to empower the youth through capacity-building projects and financial assistance. One such example is the Bizniz in the Box initiative. Using a qualitative research methodology, and by examining Bizniz in the Box as a case study, this study sought to explore the types of methods, strategies, and outcomes that the Bizniz in the Box initiative used and produced, along with its role in imparting entrepreneurship knowledge and skill to its participants. Through such strategies, the study aimed also to find the possible role the government could have in the imparting of entrepreneurship education. By employing Vygotsky’s Activity Theory (1978) and drawing extensively on Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970), the study seeks to make recommendations on how government initiatives could critically engage with school curricula and the ways in which government intervention and initiatives can aid school teachers that are ill-trained to impart entrepreneurship skill and knowledge, which is vital to abate the problem of youth unemployment.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Governmental and Social Sciences, 2024
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (180 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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