ABSTRACT

This article presents findings from interviews with Indonesian villagers who limited access to quality education. To minimise this educational disadvantage, a village community of entrepreneurship was designed to help improve villagers’ socio-economic capitals and empower villagers to become entrepreneurs. An exploratory study of this intervention programme was enacted to identify whether this village community of entrepreneurship helped build villagers’ entrepreneurial literacy. Findings showed the village community of entrepreneurship provided villagers with a space for learning entrepreneurship, and the villagers had informal educational opportunities. The villagers also reported that their heightened awareness of entrepreneurship could build their entrepreneurial literacy. It was also found that the programme improved the welfare of rural communities. The article concludes by recommending how this model may be adapted and adopted for rural communities worldwide seeking to create learning communities to improve literacy and reduce poverty.

摘要

本文介绍了对接受优质教育机会有限的印度尼西亚村民的访谈所得出的发现。为了最大程度地减少这种教育上的劣势，设计了一个乡村企业家社区，以帮助改善村民的社会经济资本，并赋予村民以企业家的权力。对该干预计划进行了一项探索性研究，以确定该村的企业家社区是否有助于建立村民的企业素养。调查结果显示，村民的创业社区为村民提供了学习创业的空间，村民有非正式的教育机会。村民们还报告说，他们对企业家精神的增强意识可以增强他们的企业家素养。还发现该方案改善了农村社区的福利。文章最后提出了建议，为寻求创建学习社区以提高识字率和减少贫困​​的全球农村社区如何改编和采用这种模式。