#VSSER25 #WeekendBookReview
🎙️ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit — this is your Weekend Book Review, where we open the covers of ideas, flip through the pages of innovation, and explore the minds shaping how we teach the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Today’s episode is about more than just teaching business — it’s about teaching boldness. Imagination. Risk. Empathy. And action.
And there’s no better guide for this journey than James D. Hart, a true pioneer in arts and creative entrepreneurship education.
Hart isn’t just a professor — he’s a movement. With a career that bridges theater and entrepreneurship, from Oslo to Dallas, from stage direction to social innovation, he’s won awards for pedagogical innovation, helped launch the Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education, and serves as a faculty leader at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts. He’s built programs, inspired students, and advised institutions all over the world. When it comes to experiential learning, Hart doesn’t just talk about it — he creates it.
And that’s exactly what his newly revised 2025 edition of “Classroom Exercises for Entrepreneurship: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach” delivers.
Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, this collection of 80 original exercises isn’t your typical textbook. It’s a toolkit, a playground, a lab for the classroom. With simulations, reflections, games, and roleplays, Hart shows educators how to ignite imagination, spark problem-solving, and empower students to get comfortable with uncertainty — the entrepreneur’s most familiar terrain.
Whether you teach business, design, public policy, or art — or you’re guiding professional development in the public or private sector — this book invites you to build learning environments that are dynamic, participatory, and deeply human.
Because at its core, entrepreneurship isn't just a skillset. It’s a mindset.
So here’s the curious question:
If we could teach entrepreneurship like jazz — improvisational, responsive, and alive — how many more students would find their rhythm?
Stick around.
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Special thanks to James D. Hart, for giving educators not just a book, but a creative engine for the classroom. Let’s open it up.
Reference
Hart, James D. Classroom Exercises for Entrepreneurship: A Cross-disciplinary Approach. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.
Latest 2nd Edition available at https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/classroom-exercises-for-entrepreneurship-9781035317530.html
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