SLIDE 1 Copenhagen 2018
22nd European Economics Association Conference
"TO CHANGE OR NOT TO CHANGE: THAT IS THE QUESTION!
ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS EDUCATION IN A TRANSFORMING SOCIETY"
Entrepreneurship Education in Italy: an economic-psychological approach
Luisa Broli - Law and Economics Teacher - PhD in Psychology
AEEE - ITALIA ISTITUTO TECNICO CASALE VIGEVANO
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Preliminary questions… Let’s debate!
Can entrepreneurship be taught? Are we really able to teach entrepreneurship?
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Entrepreneurship education needs a student-centered and mindset-focused approach
Entrepreneurship can be learnt
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What is entrepreneurship?
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Entrepreneurship competence
Entrepreneurship competence refers to the capacity to act upon opportunities and ideas, and to transform them into values for others. It is founded upon creativity, critical thinking and problem solving, taking initiative and perseverance and the ability to work collaboratively in order to plan and manage projects that are of cultural, social or financial value. (EU Council Recommendation of 22 May 2018 on key competences for lifelong learning)
SLIDE 6 EntreComp: the Entrepreneurship Competence Framework
EntreComp Framework EntreComp into Action - Get inspired, make it happen: A user guide to ...
SLIDE 7 Entrepreneurial mindset
It refers to a specific state of mind which orientates human conduct towards entrepreneurial activities and outcomes. Individuals with entrepreneurial mindsets are often drawn to opportunities, innovation and new value creation. Characteristics include the ability to take calculated risks and accept the realities
- f change and uncertainty.
(Financial Times.com/Lexicon)
SLIDE 8 ‘Plan your future, set up your own enterprise’: Entrepreneurship Education at L. Casale Technical School
- L. Casale Technical School is a secondary school located in Vigevano (Lombardy
- Italy).
The Entrepreneurship Education (EE) project involves about one hundred and fifty 16-year-old students every year. The EE program at the Casale School represents the preliminary step of a major program called ‘Alternanza Scuola – Lavoro’ including a compulsory work experience placement required before students take the final secondary school leaving exam in Italy.
SLIDE 9 Pedagogical approach of the project
Our project aims to be:
- Student-centered: no lectures, only tasks and activities are included
- Mindset-focused: attitudes and representations are investigated
- Future oriented: students have to think about their future job or the creation
- f their own enterprise
SLIDE 10 Entrepreneurship test
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Questionnaire about enterprises Elevator pitch Tasks about success factors
‘Plan your future, set up your own enterprise’: 4 steps
SLIDE 11 Entrepreneurship test
Self-evaluation questionnaire about entrepreneurship attitude Answer Keys
Questionnaire about enterprises Elevator pitch Tasks about success factors
SLIDE 12 Entrepreneurship test
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Questionnaire about enterprises
Aims of the questionnaire:
- to investigate students’ psychological
representations of enterprise
- to elicit ideas, feelings and
associations about the meaning of ‘business’ from students.
Elevator pitch Tasks about success factors
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Psychological representations of enterprise
SLIDE 14 Entrepreneurship test
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Questionnaire about enterprises Elevator pitch Tasks about success factors
- Word cloud: key competences of
a successful entrepreneur www.menti.com
- Class discussion about the
‘EntreComp wheel’
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SLIDE 17 Entrepreneurship test
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Questionnaire about enterprises Elevator pitch
Students give a 3-minute speech about the creation of their
about their future job.
Tasks about success factors
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Thanks for your attention! E-mail: broliluisa@gmail.com
