Document Type : Research Paper
Author
Ph.D in Curriculum Studies
Abstract
The aim of this research was to design a model for entrepreneurship curriculum for preschool children and its evaluation due to the viewpoint of specialists in curriculum, entrepreneurship and educators. The applied research is evaluative and it has a field method. The population in this study involved all curriculum planners, entrepreneurship scholars and specialists working in universities of Tehran and Islamic Azad university, science and research Branch and educators working in preschool centers in Tehran, who has passed the course of early childhood educator in department of Tehran University Jihad (2014-2015). The sample size which was determined using stratified sampling and was a total number of 208. Data collection tool were a researcher-based questionnaire based on the curriculum content. For data analysis descriptive and inferential statistics (chi-squared.x^2) were used. The overall results showed that
according to the designed a model for curriculum in this research, entrepreneurship for preschool children, it is not only business education but also entrepreneurship has designed as an attitude and life style in form of a model of entrepreneurship curriculum and on the basis of three main components, knowledge, attitude and entrepreneurship skill for preschool children, and its main axis according to childhood developmental properties such as: creativity, willingness to work and continuous efforts, curiosity, dynamic and ongoing activities, positive thinking, independency, desire to succeed, and responsibility. Also, the results of evaluation on model in view of the entrepreneurship specialists, curriculum planners and preschool educators is appropriate and approves it. Therefore, according to the finding of this study training of entrepreneurship in the form of model of curriculum, since early childhood for nurturing self-actualized, accomplished and independence children has been suggested.
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