Introduction to Entrepreneurial Pedagogy

Introduction to
Entrepreneurial Pedagogy
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Varghese Panthalookaran

, Cognitive skillset of digital natives
• Significance of Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (2001)
– To remember
• Evolutionary vestige of pre-printing age, still significant as
working memory
– To understand
• Evolutionary vestige of age of printing, required as foundation
of learning
– To apply, analyze and evaluate
• Evolutionary vestige of industrial age and Age of Information,
with continuing significance
– To create
• Evolutionary vestige of age of Digitalization or Industry 4.0, with
contemporary significance

, Cognitive Skillset of Digital Natives
• Beyond Bloom’s Taxonomy
– “Venture Capital” of new generation learners
• Required thinking skills of new generation learners, who are
supposed to conduct themselves in a VUCA world
– Cognitive skills defined by Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is necessary,
but not sufficient for the learners of the day!
– Gray Perception: Holistic perception
• Perceive the holistic spectrum of reality, synergizing different
outlooks of reality.
• Perceive fuzzy way, accounting for the intensity of truth values.
• Perceive Gray!
– White thinking: Integrated thinking
• Think in an integrated way, making use of different lines of
thinking associated with production, communication and
reception of knowledge
• Think fractal way, simplifying the VUCA reality
• Ponder White!