An overview of entrepreneurship education in vocational high schools in EU and Serbia

Varadjanin, Vladimir and Viduka, Biljana and Dimić, Goran (2014) An overview of entrepreneurship education in vocational high schools in EU and Serbia. In: ternational conference "Research and education challenges towards the future": Conference Proceedings. Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Shkodra "Luigj Gurakuq", Shkodër. ISBN 2308-0825

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Abstract

Entrepreneurship education is a lifelong process that begins at the elementary school and extends through all of the following levels of education, including adult education. In 2010, the Europe 2020 Strategy was adopted. The objective of the Europe 2020 Strategy is the economic development of EU based on knowledge and environmental protection, high employment and productivity rate and social cohesion. The EU Member States are expected, by taking into account the strategy framework, to precisely define own objectives and results as well as measures that will be implemented in the forthcoming financial period through national budgets, structural funds and other funding sources in view of reaching the defined long-term common objectives. On the other side the study of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking is not integrated into the system of primary and secondary education in Serbia. “There are very few privately and state owned faculties (mainly economy, business and management oriented faculties) that deal with this issue and provide an opportunity to their students to learn more entrepreneurship. In very few faculties, the entrepreneurship is a separate subject, while the great majority of faculties teach certain segments of entrepreneurship as a part of other subjects” The paper investigates the level of entrepreneurship education in the educational system of the European Union and Serbia, with a special reference to vocational education. The objective of the research “Entrepreneurial Aspirations of High Vocational School Students in Banat” was to determine the impact of entrepreneurship education factors on the development of entrepreneurial aspirations among the high school youth. In this paper focus is on student’s perception of necessary traits that should be possessed by an entrepreneur. The study was conducted in June 2012th. The sample of the survey represented 300 students in three of the selected secondary vocational schools: School of Economics and Commerce Kikinda, School of chemical, food and textile technology "Uroš Predić" Zrenjanin and Technical School "May 23rd" Pančevo. The following methods have been applied in the research “Entrepreneurial Aspirations of High Vocational School Students in Banat”: survey method, statistical methods and comparative method. Data of this survey were collected by the survey method and standardized questionnaire. It has been supposed the following: presence of entrepreneurial aspirations positively correlates with self-perception of personal abilities, skills and knowledge necessary for entrepreneurial ventures.

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