Verslumo kompetencijų ugdymas bendrojo lavinimo mokykloje

Abstract

SUMMARY The education and training of entrepreneurship is a new thing in Lithuania. It includes knowledge, skill development, and individual qualities corresponding student’s age and logic level. Primary, secondary, and vocational training schools develop entrepreneurship and learning by doing. Because of entrepreneurship, the cooperation between training institutions and business enterprises, teachers’ training, encouragement of business initiatives at universities takes place. The work’s research problem consists of questions like entrepreneurship conception, aspects, and growth potential. The objective of this research is to show secondary schools students and teacher’s attitude towards entrepreneurship education competence. To achieve this objective and to reveal problematic aspects, different scientific pedagogical, psychological, and other issues were used. The research is made to evaluate the importance of entrepreneurship education from the secondary schools students and teacher’s viewpoint; to develop the ways of entrepreneurship teaching, to explore education abilities of the entrepreneurship competences; to determine the necessary qualities and skills for entrepreneurship competence and give recommendations. The work reveals the essence of entrepreneurship competence: entrepreneurship is not only the creation of your business, but the growth of your qualities as well. Entrepreneurship competences are influenced by the growth of certain natural and acquired qualities, training and usage in practice, and the teacher’s attitude. The theme is focused on the future and the abilities to analyze the occurring new problems. It is necessary to understand what we are trying to achieve and what results we are expecting in including the entrepreneurship education at secondary and vocational training school programs. Our increasing economic, political, cultural demands require that the person would stay flexible, react quickly into occurring new problems, try to achieve productivity and expand his activities’ quality and value. It is necessary to form competences and general habits of people. It is necessary to orientate the content of vocational training to the self-expression, but not only to self-preservation. It is necessary to humanize the conception of profession, individual professional expression, and competence, while educating individual and social values of students. In addition, it is necessary to base the education on humanism and philosophies of pragmatism.