Entrepreneurial learning, Vol. 3 No. 2, 2013.
Original scientific paper
Student awareness of entrepreneurial contents in high school programmes
Ines Elezović
orcid.org/0000-0001-6371-8982
; Odjel za promicanje kvalitete obrazovanja, Nacionalni centar za vanjsko vrednovanje obrazovanja, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Jasmina Muraja
; Odjel za promicanje kvalitete obrazovanja, Nacionalni centar za vanjsko vrednovanje obrazovanja, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Learning for entrepreneurship is a relatively new concept that was introduced into the Croatian educational system with the publishing of Key Competences for Lifelong Learning and European Qualification Framework (2008) and then consequently adopted into the Croatian Qualification Framework (2012). The core idea of connecting education with labour market is an aim of modern states that encompasses development, accessibility and management of target knowledge, its practical use and associated skills required for successful employment. In this article results of the research project “Representation of entrepreneurial contents in high school programmes”, which was carried out on a national sample of students (N = 3 345), are presented. Students’ awareness of entrepreneurial contents was examined by 20 questions derived from the subject matter of high school textbooks for Politics and Economy and Entrepreneurship. Students achieved maximum of 20 points, out of possible 24 points, and average score of 9,42 points (SD = 3,46). Approximately half of students answered correctly to majority of questions. The smallest portion of students (4,8%) correctly answered to a question about three key groups of entrepreneurial skills, while 72,4% of students showed their good knowledge of the basic economy principle. The most developed countries have recognized the importance of cultivating entrepreneurial climate and adoption of educational policies in which learning for entrepreneurship represents an element of national strategy. Searching for solutions of economic crisis in education creates an additional pressure on a system that has a goal to raise and educate and in the same time foster national economy.
Keywords
learning for entrepreneurship; educational policy; labour market; external evaluation
Hrčak ID:
130405
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Publication date:
1.12.2013.
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