This book presents a framework for integrating entrepreneurship education in a way that is inclusive and integral to objective, content, pedagogy and assessment practices for different stages of school education, in particular the elementary stage.

This book presents an epistemological framework for integrating entrepreneurship education across the general school curriculum. It also explores how such education can be inclusive and integral to the objective, content, pedagogy and assessment practices for different stages of school education in general and the elementary stage in particular. It takes on board the development of entrepreneurial proficiencies through the use of narratives, arts and craft, work and life skills and home-community partnership. The precise aims of the book are to: (a) conceptualize entrepreneurship education in different stages of school education as an objective, an approach and as a specific subject; (b) promote the culture of entrepreneurship in the school system; (c) establish a methodology within which effective teaching-learning can be developed with respect to the extent to which entrepreneurial learning is considered to be an extracurricular activity or as an intrinsic part of school education; (d) integrate entrepreneurship education at the elementary stage, and its progression further on; and (e) identify behavioural outcomes validating entrepreneurship development in school education.

Foreword by Prof. Maheshwari. Chapter 1. Education for Life Skills in India: An Introduction.Chapter 2. Entrepreneurship and Skill Development.Chapter 3. Methodological Framework for Entrepreneurship Education.Chapter 4. Curriculum Design for Entrepreneurship Education: An Experimental Project.Chapter 5. Entrepreneurship Narratives for Children.Chapter 6. Curriculum Evaluation.Chapter 7. Entrepreneurship and School Education: The Beginning of a Relationship.