Original scientific paper

Marijana Vrančić orcid.org/0000-0001-9286-6650 ; Osnovna škola Prečko, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sandra Lovrenčić orcid.org/0000-0002-7249-8990 ; Osnovna škola Prečko, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

National Pre-School, Elementary School and High School Curriculum Framework includes the introduction of entrepreneurial competency to the educational system as an intersubject theme. The authors describe the work of a children’s cooperative association with education for entrepreneurship in its focus. Under the maxim „Learning, doing, and living together“, the cooperative leaders have organized work in mutually dependent teams, each of which is tasked with a single production stage, which eventually come together to complete the production and sales cycle. This makes the conditions for learning by doing similar to those of a real company. Another aspect in which this cooperative steps out of the traditional framework is the choice of its core business, which is in the ICT field, unlike the traditional cooperatives that have long focused on ethnology, traditional manufacturing and environment protection. The cooperative’s main product is an e-picture book with additional educational content for elementary schools. The products are mostly sold in fairs, but the cooperative has also made a wholesale deal with a known buyer, which is another novelty for elementary school cooperatives.

Keywords

pupils’ cooperative; entrepreneurial competency; learning by doing; learning by expiriences

Hrčak ID:

130392

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/130392

Publication date:

1.12.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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