Teaching Social Entrepreneurship in Higher Education: A Review of Pedagogical Approaches and Learning Outcomes

Social entrepreneurship education (SEE) has expanded rapidly within business schools globally as educators seek to prepare students to address complex societal challenges through market-based and hybrid solutions. This paper presents a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) review of research on teaching social entrepreneurship in higher education across the world, with a particular focus on business and management domains. Synthesizing conceptual, qualitative, and quantitative studies, the review examines dominant pedagogical approaches and learning outcomes used in SEE. Experiential, service-based, and learner-centered pedagogies emerge as central to effective teaching, influencing student competencies, intentions, values, and career pathways. The paper advances SoTL scholarship by integrating fragmented findings into a pedagogical framework tailored to business educators and by explicitly linking research evidence to classroom design decisions. Practical implications and future research directions are discussed to support evidence-informed teaching practice.