Identifying the Role of Teachers in Developing Entrepreneurial Intention of Prospective Teachers

Abstract

This research study identified the main areas related to entrepreneurship teacher education. The main objectives of the study were: (a) to identify the importance of entrepreneurship education for teacher education in Pakistan; (b) to identify the areas to prepare pre-service teachers for entrepreneurship education. The nature of study was descriptive while mixed method approach was used to gather information. Twelve teacher educators and eighty five prospective teachers were selected by using convenience sampling technique. ENVIVO-11 and SPSS were used to analyze qualitative and quantitative data. It was revealed that mostly interviewees agreed on entrepreneurial education should be made a part of national professional standards of teachers. Majority of the trainee teachers appreciated entrepreneurship education. Most of the respondents intervene about imparting and improving entrepreneurial education for prospective teachers’ course. Interviewees are appreciating this step of entrepreneurial intentions in prospective teachers’ course.

The Entrepreneurship Educator: Understanding Role Identity

“…This tool has been used in similar studies (e.g., Kleine et al., 2019; Lackéus, 2014). No pre-coding was applied to transcripts prior to use of software for characterizing educator’s role perception (Ramzan et al., 2019). Next, data were content analyzed and broken down into component parts, and based on the educators’ perceptions of, e.g., students’ role or institution’s role, headings and sections were given to different passages of the interviews.…”