From teachers to students creativity? the mediating role of entrepreneurial education

Abstract

Enhancing creativity is beneficial for students to be involved in entrepreneurial activities and entrepreneurship education to promote students’ creative thinking abilities. This paper examines how teacher creativity drives students’ ingenuity and investigates entrepreneurship education’s pivotal role in explaining this relationship. A quantitative method was involved in obtaining a better understanding of the relationship between variables using variance-based Structural Equation Modeling Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS). Participants in this study were gathered from numerous vocational schools in Yogyakarta of Indonesia undergoing an online survey. The findings indicate that teacher creativity has a positive effect on entrepreneurship education and students’ creativity. It also reveals a strong correlation between entrepreneurship education in the schools and their students’ creativity. Finally, this study offers to the schools and government to emphasize these variables in enhancing students’ creativity which can be used to improve students’ entrepreneurial intentions.