Shared Understanding on the Concept of Entrepreneurship Education by Teachers and Businessmen / the Concept of Entrepreneurship Education in Lithuanian Schools Shared by Teachers and Businessmen

Abstract

The article highlights the importance of entrepreneurship education in a modern day educational institution. Strategic documents of the EU invite the educational institutions to cooperate more actively with the business world in order to have the best quality entrepreneurship education. So the main aim of the research is to determine the concept of entrepreneurship shared by teachers and businessmen. Firstly, the concept of entrepreneurship and its development is reviewed, taking into account the legislations and scientist observations. The second part of the article presents the similarities and differences on the concept of entrepreneurship from the point of view of teachers and businessmen. These differences can suggest what relevant aspects, indicated by the representatives of the business world, could be included into the process of organization of the entrepreneurship education and to improve.

Position of Entrepreneurship Education in Lithuanian General Education Curriculum and in Educational Process in General Education School

“…Entrepreneurship, as one of today's most relevant competences, is widely discussed in the public space. Various studies (Zaleskienė & Žadeikaitė, 2008;Jelagaite & Vijeikis, 2012;Žibėnienė & Virbalienė, 2014;Dudaitė et al, 2015, etc. ), as well as rapid and constant change of the education phenomenon show the efforts of the scientists to understand the key components of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, because study of legal environment highlights the significance of entrepreneurship competence for today's person.…”