Abstract
“Commercial high schools” that are ubiquitous throughout Japan can be studied by students of a wide range of academic ability, and can be expected to be a base for expanding entrepreneurship education “EE” to rural areas and to a layer that has nothing to do with entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the success factors of EE in commercial high schools based on collaboration with outside schools from a framework centered on “community of practice”. When we analyzed EE of two advanced cases of school that are working with in-school corporation and regional revitalizing, the both built mutual communities that ensured community that became a “the third place” with informality and spontaneity secured. This encouraged the transformation of identity and perspective through noncanonical learning, leading to innovations such as new product development. As management, it became clear that it is important to make connections with adept key person and for the organization to support the teachers in the coordinator role to make it easier to move.
