‘Not All of Us Can Be Nurses’: Proposing and Resisting Entrepreneurship Education in Rural Lesotho
Summary. Lesotho introduced entrepreneurship education to help youth build informal economy livelihoods as formal employment became scarce. Ethnographic research in two rural primary schools found the curriculum failed to shift students' deep-rooted aspirations toward salaried professional jobs like nursing and teaching. The education also disconnected from students' actual expectations of rural livelihoods, making it ineffective at preparing young people for either pathway.
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Dungey, C., & Ansell, N.. (2020). ‘Not All of Us Can Be Nurses’: Proposing and Resisting Entrepreneurship Education in Rural Lesotho. Sociological Research Online. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780420944967
Dungey, Claire, and Nicola Ansell. “‘Not All of Us Can Be Nurses’: Proposing and Resisting Entrepreneurship Education in Rural Lesotho.” Sociological Research Online, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780420944967.
Dungey, Claire, and Nicola Ansell. 2020. “‘Not All of Us Can Be Nurses’: Proposing and Resisting Entrepreneurship Education in Rural Lesotho.” Sociological Research Online. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780420944967.
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- DOI
- 10.1177/1360780420944967
- Countries
- Lesotho
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- education, entrepreneurship
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- 2026-04-28