Strategies Used in Teaching Entrepreneurship Component of Economic and Management Sciences in uThukela Education District
Lungelo Sithuthuko Mbatha 
& Sithembele Goodman Ndovela
Issue: Vol.6 No.1 Issue Article 2 pp.12 – 25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2025612 | Published online 30th January, 2025
© 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
This research paper reports on findings on strategies teachers used in the teaching of the Entrepreneurship component of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) in the uThukela district, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Using a qualitative interpretive case study, the researchers purposively recruited and interviewed five EMS teachers from five secondary schools regarding the teaching of the Entrepreneurship component of EMS. Semi-structured interviews were used as a data generation method. The study employed Shulman’s (1986) theory of teacher knowledge to think through and theorise teachers’ strategies for the teaching of the Entrepreneurship component of EMS. The findings revealed that EMS teachers use code-switching in teaching Entrepreneurship, utilise learners’ previous knowledge to introduce new content, use assessment in teaching the Entrepreneurship component, prior knowledge on entrepreneurship to make sense of the subject matter. The study recommends that EMS teachers should consider switching to IsiZulu learners’ home language when they clarify the difficult subject matter of EMS.
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Code-switching, Economic and Management Sciences
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Mr. Lungelo Sithuthuko Mbatha is a teacher at Sakhelwe High School in the uThukela Education District. He is currently registered for a PhD at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His research interest is more on the teaching of Business Studies and Economics and Management Sciences (EMS). He is a member of the South African Education Research Association (SAERA).
Dr. Sithembele Goodman Ndovela is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein campus, South Africa. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His research interests include teaching and learning in Accounting education, especially Accountimg threshold concepts. He is a member of the World Education Research Association (WERA) and the South African Education Research Association (SAERA).
Mbatha, Lungelo Sithuthuko & Sithembele Goodman Ndovela. “Strategies Used in Teaching Entrepreneurship Component of Economic and Management Sciences in uThukela Education District,” E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 6, no.1 (2025): 12-25. https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2025612
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