Last Updated Date: 15 Dec 2023

Vision: Prepare students to be Job Creators rather than Job Seekers

Launch^[1]:

April-May2019: Pilot run in 300 classes across 35 schools
July 2019: For all ~7.5 lakh students of classes 9-12 in 1,000+ schools

¶ EMC Objectives^[2]

Mission: Nurturing their own abilities, EMC empowers students to take charge of their career-paths in employment or entrepreneurship

• EMC aims to develop broad-based entrepreneurs & intrapreneurs who dream big, take risks, set vision for inspiring innovations and demand excellence in execution.
• Whatever the students choose to do, they must do it with the Entrepreneurship Mindset.

¶ EMC Pedagogy

A daily 40 minute class with NO exams, NO Textbooks^[3]

The pedagogy for nurturing the Entrepreneurship Mindset in students is primarily experiential, with some degree of inspiration and a lot of reflection^[4]

¶ Curriculum

¶ Inside Classrooms^[5]

¶ Outside Classrooms^[5:1]

• Business Blasters Crucial part of Outside the class curriculum

¶ Impact on Students

Global firm Boston Consulting Group's Study conducted within first year^[6]:

Report by IDinsight (A mission-driven global advisory body)

• Students have become more confident in asking questions in other subjects to clear their doubts, thus improving performance^[7]

Long-term effects

• A comprehensive longitudinal research on the long-term effects of EMC and Business Blasters is underway to fully assess the lasting impact on students' academic achievements, career trajectories, and overall well-being

¶ Independent Ground Report

Youtuber Dhruv Rathee's Ground Report on EMC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJhw9TIO2Lg&t=6s

• See Business Blasters for more videos

¶ Target Learning Areas

The curriculum defines the entrepreneurship mindset as comprising of

1. Entrepreneurial Abilities

2. Foundation abilities

21st century skills such as critical thinking, ideation, collaboration, communication, decision-making, adapting to change and so on

3. Key qualities

refer to personal attributes such as curiosity, creativity, empathy, joyfulness, mindfulness, and so on

References:

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1. https://www.edudel.nic.in/emc/ ↩︎

2. https://scert.delhi.gov.in/scert/entrepreneurship-mindset-curriculum-emc (SCERT Delhi) ↩︎

3. https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/news/story/entrepreneurship-curriculum-by-delhi-govt-to-have-no-exams-books-1451183-2019-02-08 ↩︎

4. https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/entrepreneurship-mindset-curriculum-in-delhi-schools-1102822.html ↩︎

5. https://scert.delhi.gov.in/scert/components-emc ↩︎ ↩︎

6. https://web-assets.bcg.com/f6/c4/b2ac61934f93bea1c9f90a1f544e/school-education-reforms-in-delhi-2015-2020-interventions-handbook.pdf (Boston Consulting Group Report) ↩︎

7. https://scert.delhi.gov.in/sites/default/files/2022-12/research_report_of_emc_compressed.pdf (IDinsight's report) ↩︎