I can see yours as a quite philosophical question, Gamze.
Good point!
Somebody would have said: "it depends on the dominant culture"
I would struggle to make a case for entrepreneurial education in a school setting (there is a stronger case in higher education and business education contexts). It is not the educational role of schools to turn all young people into budding money-making capitalists and clones of Richard Branson. However, I have less of an ethical dilemma with enterprise education and enterprise skills (see attached for a list of enterprise skills sourced from UK enterprise education contexts). There is a literature to consult in terms of making the case for enterprise education:
e.g.
Elo, J. (2015) The benefits and challenges of enterprise education: results from an action research project in the third grade in Finnish basic education. Educational Action Research 1-15
Jones, CD (2008) Best practice full-stop: anticipating the spillover effects of enterprise education. Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, 4 (4). pp. 123-133.
Penaluna, K and Penaluna, A and Jones, CD (2012) The context of enterprise education: insights into current practices. Industry and Higher Education, 26 (3). pp. 163-175.
If education prepares people capable of initiating their own innovative start-up companies then that’s great, but society also needs teachers, nurses, doctors, police officers, fire fighters who will have less drive to monetize their services. Enterprise skills are worthwhile qualities to develop in all young citizens as life skills – and a certain amount of financial literacy and broader economic understanding is important in terms of future citizenship too.
What prompted your question, Gamze? Is something that you are looking to research?
Best wishes.
Peter
I do agree with your question that entrepreneurial education is must at school level because of following points
1.High energy levels and low expectations at early stage
2.More time to learn and master the craft
If you look at Bloom's taxonomy, entrepeneurship is considered high ranked, so more towards the top of the pyramide: create.
Personally I feel that in this day and age of young people with sky high debts it is an important topic to educate students on. not so much with the goal to start their won bussines but more with the goals in mind to make them more money wise.
Although not scientific at all but I think it could have a strong learning effect for students: have them read the book by Robert Kiyosaki: Rich dad, Poor dad.
it is a potential eye-opener!
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