Newswise — Babson College will deliver its flagship Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE) in Russia November 2-6, 2008. Babson and St. Petersburg State University with support from Banco Santander are collaborating to offer the intensive, four-day SEE program customized for entrepreneurship educators in Russia.
At St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, educator-students will explore the entrepreneurial process, the "art and craft" of teaching and learning entrepreneurship. The course will be taught primarily in English with simultaneous translation available for those more comfortable with Russian.
Participants are academics teamed with entrepreneurs and are encouraged to identify, plan, and personalize their entrepreneurship teaching strategy, as well as to improve as teachers, learners, researchers, colleagues, and entrepreneurs.
Topics covered will include:
The Entrepreneurial Perspective on TeachingMapping the Entrepreneurship Territory Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Mindset New Venture CreationThe Entrepreneurial Mind in ActionEntrepreneurship Curriculum Alternative Pedagogies Case Writing
Faculty for the SEE Russia program are entrepreneurship professors Heidi Neck and Andrew Zacharakis, and accounting professor William Coyle, all from Babson, and Galina Shirokova from Graduate School of Management at St. Petersburg State University.
Babson SEE is a global initiative based on the flagship Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators held annually at Babson College. Through SEE, Babson has shared its entrepreneurship education expertise with academics and entrepreneurs from around the world for over 24 years. With more than 1,800 alumni, it is the foremost entrepreneurship faculty development program in the world.
In recent years customized Babson SEE programs for educators have been offered in Japan, Ireland, Costa Rica, China, Chile, Venezuela, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Switzerland and Ecuador.
The Babson Symposia for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE) focus on case-method teaching and alternative pedagogies. SEE alumni are teaching and mentoring tens of thousands of students around the globe each year. Many of these educators and others gather annually for the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), the oldest and largest research conference for entrepreneurship in the world.
Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., is recognized internationally as a leader in entrepreneurial management education. Babson grants BS degrees through its innovative undergraduate program, and grants MBA and custom MS and MBA degrees through the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Babson Executive Education offers executive development programs to experienced managers worldwide. For information, visit www.babson.edu.
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