Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17234/SEC.33.2
How to Raise an Entrepreneur? Fostering Entrepreneurship in Slovenian Secondary Education
Saša Poljak Istenič
; ZRC SAZU Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
The article uses a case-study of a Slovenian secondary school to discuss national specifics and European trajectories of entrepreneurship education. It is based on an historical overview of its development in Slovenia and narrative interviews with educators, headmasters, mentors, and students to illustrate how educational opportunities shape students’ agency. Adding to the standard argument of the neoliberalisation of contemporary education in which students are seen as human capital, the article analyses how the school works with them in regular programmes and extracurricular activities to avoid neoliberal labelling. It fosters volunteering, addresses local problems, and encourages the critical assessment of the need to intervene.
Keywords
entrepreneurship education; secondary schools; (mitigating) neoliberalism; students-as-givers
Hrčak ID:
268236
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Publication date:
24.12.2021.
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