<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>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.</p></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.

Entrepreneurship Education in a Democratic Perspective

Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education

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Entrepreneurship Education often emphasizes the practical applications of competencies. This article aims to collect findings on entrepreneurship education...

Entrepreneurship Education in a Democratic Perspective

Published Online: Dec 31, 2019

Page range: 100 - 111

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/dcse-2019-0021

Keywords
entrepreneurship, democratic formation, attitude, creativity, sustainability

© 2019 Britt Due Tiemensma et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Entrepreneurship Education in a Democratic Perspective

Published Online: Dec 31, 2019

Page range: 100 - 111

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/dcse-2019-0021

Keywordsentrepreneurship, democratic formation, attitude, creativity, sustainability

© 2019 Britt Due Tiemensma et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
entrepreneurship, democratic formation, attitude, creativity, sustainability