February 21, 2018
Mary Ann Maslak, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, recently published Education and Female Entrepreneurship in Asia: Public Policies and Private Practices. This book analyzes the importance of policies that structure entrepreneurships and practices that female entrepreneurs experience in Asia. Part I, Economies and Documents, examines the formal and informal sectors of the economy and relates international development plans to them. Part II, Country-Level Initiatives, proffers national development plans and business policies related to female entrepreneurship in each of the five countries. Part III, Case Studies, provides stakeholders’ perspectives of entrepreneurial learning in each country based on in-country fieldwork by the author. Part IV, Frameworks, presents original conceptual and theoretical models which offer a visual representation of the entrepreneur’s learning process. Part V, Future Directions, grapples with the inclusion of informal learning and networking experiences for female entrepreneurs for university course work that relates to entrepreneurship for women, development projects for agencies such as USAID, and scholarly works for academics in the field.