Studying and Developing the Entrepreneurship Education in Finnish Professional Teacher Education
Keywords:
Entrepreneurship Education, Professional teacher education, Curriculum, Action researchAbstract
Refereed article
Main objective is to present the possible perspectives for research and development of entrepreneurship education in vocational and professional teacher education in Finland. Perspectives appear best in the context of teacher education, but, however, are also applicable to other educational organizations. The current curricula of vocational and professional teacher education were investigated in 2010. Next year 2011 were investigated the entrepreneurship education activities of teacher educators. Based on the investigations there were implicated two interventions in HAMK School of Professional Teacher Education. In the first intervention the implementation of the curriculum were developed more entrepreneurial. In the second intervention there were studied, how the entrepreneurship education objectives were achieved. Both interventions can be called action researches. The main result is the strengthening of the idea of writing the objectives of entrepreneurship education in curriculum. Based on the studies can also be mentioned that the objectives should be written to describe the competences of entrepreneurship. The teachers can also influence the learning outcomes with the methodological solutions in pedagogics.
