The paper will be based on a work in progress study of ethical discourse related to entrepreneurship education in the context of policy-making in Finland and in the European context, and its implications from the perspectives of 'entrepreneurial self', and intersubjectivity and morality in Habermasian sense.

The main work hypothesis in my study will be that focusing exclusively on
the 'objective' reality of economic competition and the individual subject as an 'entrepreneurial self' with by no means an easily definable relationship to community and society, the discourse of entrepreneurship education is effectively excluding the intersubjective moral perspective from educational policy, undermining the basis for developing meaningful intersubjective relationships between actors in the context of education and imprisoning education and renewal of within the logic of calculative instrumental reason and economic competition.

The aim of the contribution is to engage in dialogue and collaborative re-interpretation of possible answers on the question of how entrepreneurship education can be redefined to account for a more viable, holistic view of a full embodied, conscious and situated human being as a goal of education, based on philosopher Lauri Rauhala's phenomenological notion of human being. I will also relate my own experiences of dialogical and communal forms of entrepreneurship education as a team coach (lecturer) in Tampere University of Applied Sciences’ (TAMK) Proacademy special unit for entrepreneurship studies.

This preliminary study  will constitute a part of my ongoing PhD research in Education & Society doctoral programme in University of Tampere. 

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