Entrepreneurial learning, Vol. 1 No. 1, 2011.
Original scientific paper
Psychological aspects of entrepreneurial competence of students defined by strategic acts and expected limitations in their implementation
Narcisa Vojnović
; Agencija za odgoj i obrazovanje, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Having adopted the Strategy of Learning for Entrepreneurship 2010-2014, and introduced entrepreneurship as one of eight key competences of students into the National Curriculum Framework from 2010, the Republic of Croatia, the same as the European Union some years before, has shown that the entrepreneurial orientation is considered extra important for the personal, general social and economic prosperity, both today and in a time to come. If we analyse the way in which the entrepreneurial competence of students in the mentioned documents is defined, and especially the number and structure of psychological characteristics it implies, which should all be supported, encouraged and systematically developed in students by their teachers, it is clear that it is a very demanding task.As one of presumptions for the achievement of the desired level of students’ competencies, it would be necessary to develop corresponding level of teachers’ competencies first. It would have to be taken into account that the competencies implying a number of characteristics needed to achieve success (abilities, knowledge, skills, attitudes, …) should be considered in relation to the context in which they are being realized. That is why some preconditions aimed at work on development
of students’ entrepreneurial competencies have been mentioned and analysed. In addition to improvement of teacher competencies, which has been announced in the indicated documents, but still not specified and operationalized, the context should be considered as well, first of all, in order to define the level of expectations as precisely as possible, and to work out corresponding conditions and ways of teaching entrepreneurship at schools in an adequate way.
Keywords
learning for entrepreneurship; student entrepreneurial competence; psychological aspects; teacher competencies
Hrčak ID:
130089
URI
Publication date:
1.6.2011.
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