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While the entrepreneurial passion (EP) has attracted attention of researchers, this conceptual paper aims to show how a combination of EP and the dualistic model of passion (DMP) developed principally by social psychology scholars, would be useful to generate new insights regarding the impact of passionate entrepreneurship teachers on entrepreneurship education effectiveness. Do we need passionate entrepreneurship educators to foster entrepreneurship? We take a deeper look at the literature in entrepreneurship, in psychology and educational sciences. We discuss separately the importance of passion for entrepreneurship and passion for teaching to illustrate the necessity of considering them in entrepreneurship education context. We highlight the somehow ignored key role of entrepreneurship teachers, specially the manner they influence the effectiveness of entrepreneurship classes, through emotional/psychological channels (i.e. their harmonious and obsessive passions for entrepreneurship and teaching). This research opens up new avenues to investigate empirically what happens when entrepreneurship educators represent different passions, if any and how they impact the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education. We propose an integrated model of harmonious and obsessive passions for entrepreneurship. Beyond pedagogies, learning objectives and teaching methods already discussed in the literature, this paper tries to demonstrated the essential role of entrepreneurship educators.

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