The role of self-efficacy entrepreneurship education in primary school students
Subject Areas : علوم برنامه ریزیGulnar Salehikhah 1 , Roya Sarat nehayi 2 , Moghaddis Ali Mohammadi 3
1 - Payam Noor Yasouj University
2 - University of Zanjan
3 - Babylon University
Keywords: Entrepreneurship education, elementary students, outdoor learning environment, self-efficacy,
Abstract :
Entrepreneurs have a great impact on the economic growth of a country, therefore, raising the generation of entrepreneurs and preparing them for economic activities is very important. What makes entrepreneurial talent come into action and manifest is entrepreneurial self-efficacy, which ultimately leads to entrepreneurial intention. Considering the necessity of entrepreneurship education in promoting entrepreneurship and the appropriateness of childhood to create a deep attitude about entrepreneurship, educational programs of primary school should be targeted and implemented in order to raise awareness and strengthen attitudes towards entrepreneurship. And as researchers increasingly pay attention to entrepreneurship education, there is a lack of empirical evidence on how to prepare for entrepreneurship education at an early age. Therefore, this study investigates the effect of outdoor learning environment and entrepreneurship education on students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The findings showed that the outdoor learning environment is closely related to entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Second, entrepreneurship education plays an important role in mediating the relationship between outdoor learning environment and students' self-efficacy. Our research provides insight to future researchers that early education plays an important role in the growth and development of self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intentions.