Effective Social Entrepreneurship Education: A Catalyst for Creating Social Value and Social Capital among Youth

Abstract

This paper entitled “Effective Social Entrepreneurship Education”: A Catalyst for Community Mind set Change tried to explain the concepts of entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, the qualities and roles of social entrepreneurs, their importance to economic and social development and lastly their contribution to poverty alleviation. The researcher further eexplores the concept of rural volunteers, Youth leader, Challenges encountered with youth leader, poverty eradication programs and their relationship to social entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, social mission, innovative and disruptive strategies, and sustainable financial foundation. It constitutes of scholarly definitions and views on the subject, references and cited material from various sources and various arguments and opinions from the writers. The main objective of this paper is to enable the understanding of different concepts of social entrepreneurship and the applicability of knowledge and skills towards development perspectives. To fulfill the objective of the study, the research employs a systematic review of the literature. The review focused on articles related to the field of social entrepreneurship. Primarily, the research reviewed the literature on the role of social entrepreneurship to create social value, most of the findings shows social entrepreneurship can pray better part for the youth mind set change regardless from the challenges that rural youth are facing, social entrepreneurship provide an opportunities for youth to serve the communities in which they belongs by volunteering their efforts, knowledge and skills while earning minimal reward but creating powerful social capital in which in future their assured with building strong bond with their community, trust and integrity which will pave the way to success. Finally this article closes with recommendations and conclusion that social entrepreneurship education has to be promoted across the country and this is because the concept seems as newly concept to the community as well as youth in developing countries like Tanzania.