Entrepreneurial learning, Vol. 3 No. 1, 2013.
Original scientific paper
Creating better futures through entrepreneurship education in Primary and Secondary schools
Ibrahim BÜKEL
; Ministry of National Education, Beşevler-Ankara, Turkey
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to ensure that children, from a very young age, participate in entrepreneurship education and begin to see and read their surroundings differently, think differently and make changes in any situations they encounter. Schools play an important role in providing such an environment. Schools, in simple terms, are the places where education is provided to children in different fields. However there are a number of agents involved in school education. These are school administrations, teachers, learners, curriculum designers, developers of teaching materials and indirectly employers and parents. There is a strong belief in EU countries as well as other countries nowadays that once all these staff prepare appropriate curricula and teaching materials including characteristics of an entrepreneur, train their administration and teachers accordingly and relate themselves to the business world. This will contribute to the personal and social development of learners and economic growth of the country. With all this in mind in this paper I will present a school model where entrepreneurship education is promoted at the highest level of the school, dealing with the issues of the importance of entrepreneurship education, at early ages in particular, creating a conceptual framework and how this can be done at institutional level to promote entrepreneurship education.
Keywords
Entrepreneurship education; innovation; experiential learning; communication; cooperation; characteristics of an entrepreneur; self employment and organizational effectiveness
Hrčak ID:
130317
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Publication date:
1.6.2013.
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