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Dear all,

Many of our students may well become one of the wealthier members of their country, region, city, neighborhood, community, or friendship circle. Although entrepreneurship educators help many of their students to become rich, there is often limited discussion of issues related to being rich.

We developed a module aimed at building awareness among entrepreneurship students around issues related to being wealthy and wealth inequality, using entrepreneur billionaires as a pedagogical device.

The module is flexible in terms of audience and duration (1.5 hours or more, single session or more) and includes reflection prompts, reflection software (LoopMe), animated videos, discussion and debate formats, and background information on wealth inequality and its meanings, causes, and the contentious issues it generates.

We have tried our approach at the Denmark Technical University, the University of Cardiff, and Chalmers University of Technology. We are currently seeking more colleagues who want to try this approach in their course, for example, in summer school or in the next academic year.

We can help you to set up the module. For the trials, you can use the LoopMe reflection software. We provide a teacher resource, see, in particular, the list of reflection prompts and animated videos. Sources are freely available to you. See https://www.enterprisingcompetencies.com/wealth-and-wealth-inequality.html.

Please contact Marco van Gelderen at m.w.van.gelderen@vu.nl if you are interested.

Have a great day,

Martin Lackéus (Chalmers University of Technology)

Marco van Gelderen (VU University Amsterdam)