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Entrepreneurship Education in a Democratic Perspective Cover
Open Access
|Dec 2019

Abstract

Entrepreneurship Education often emphasizes the practical applications of competencies. This article aims to collect findings on entrepreneurship education linked to democratic formation in primary education as experienced by teacher students. Based on a model from the Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship and theories on democratic formation and active citizenship, the authors analyze what entrepreneurship and democratic formation have in common. Entrepreneurship education will also be linked to education for sustainable development. By following a group of teacher students in two different cases, the authors discuss how a potential synergy is visible, when the teacher students learn by reading, discussing and solving concrete tasks connected to social entrepreneurship education. The teacher students’ personal attitudes and understanding of authentic practical experiences turns out to be important to their learning from entrepreneurial education tasks. The structural organization of teacher education is a challenge to the organization of teaching entrepreneurship education.

Language: English
Page range: 100 - 111
Published on: Dec 31, 2019
Published by: Daugavpils University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2019 Britt Due Tiemensma, Connie Stendal Rasmussen, published by Daugavpils University
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.