Original scientific paper

Education for entrepreneurship in kindergartens

Jasna Peklić ; Kindergarten “Markuševec”, Zagreb, Croatia
Zrinka Vujatović ; Kindergarten “Markuševec”, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The “Children’s Entrepreneurship Week” is the name under which, since 2009, a project in kindergartens across Croatia has been carried out. It is launched by the Ministry of Economy, Crafts and Entrepreneurship (now the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Crafts) with the aim of educating the public about the need for education for entrepreneurship from an early age. The project was implemented in five cycles in sixteen cities in Croatia. The project team consisted of Vitomir Tafra and Zdravko Tkalec, lecturers at University College Nikola Šubić Zrinski (Zagreb) and Jasna Peklić, the director, together with Dinka Vujatović, a teacher at Markuševec kindergarten. They designed and participated in the implementation and evaluation of the project. To obtain the relevant data from the surveys for parents and educators, it was necessary that kindergartens follow the instructions for the implementation of the project, while maintaining their identity and specific climate in which they operate. As in previous years, the last cycle of the research confirmed the expected positive response from all participants who wish to continue ongoing work on the development of entrepreneurial competencies in children as it has been the case of Markusevec kindergarten.

Keywords

Kindergarten; entrepreneurship; competence; continuity

Hrčak ID:

134606

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/134606

Publication date:

1.6.2014.

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