Entrepreneurship in relation to contemporary concepts of education (language - english)

Abstract

ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN RELATION TO CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTS OF EDUCATIONCreativity, initiative and entrepreneurship as the educational goals, and the key components of intellectual capital in the spirit of the European strategy "Education & Training 2020" should be systematically developed at all levels of education. This is not about just narrowly focused preparation for future business, the aim is to guide learners to independence, activity, critical thinking, motivated approach to learning as well as responsible self-learning. In such a way graduates acquire all necessary preconditions for becoming a successful employee, manager and entrepreneur but they should be also prepared and motivated for lifelong learning. Such a complex competency profile to learners is only possible through using the contemporary education concepts based on activating methods as it is demonstrated in the article below. Our aim has been to present original research results concerning the level of actual use of the contemporary concepts of education in relation to the reality of teaching experience. The research questions and hypotheses posed below are directly related to the effectiveness of their application and match the combined research methodology, based on the exploratory methods, but are supplemented by observations and structured interviews as well. It can be stated that the professional development of teachers has not been sufficiently developed yet so that they could effectively develop students' entrepreneurial skills in terms of economic education in the Czech Republic. The presented results show that students of secondary economic schools are more and more exposed to traditional methods that cannot develop creative entrepreneurial skills. Students are not prepared enough in practical training, for surviving in the real economic world and conducting their own business activities. Based on the findings of the research are recommend some priorities and measures concerning the teaching of economic subjects.

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