Perfil empreendedor dos alunos: desenvolvimento e aplicação de metodologia de ensino para promover competências empreendedoras

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is one of the main factors responsible for a country's economic development and the improvement of social conditions; it also involves good professional performance and personal fulfillment. Consequently, entrepreneurial education presents itself as one of the most effective instruments to boost the emergence of entrepreneurs. However, most Brazilian schools do not use teaching practices that stimulate the entrepreneurial profile, as is the case of the Professional Education Center “Tancredo Neves”, a public educational institution where this research was conducted. Given this context, the objective of this work was to develop a teaching methodology that, through its application, would promote entrepreneurial skills in students. It is believed that the expansion of these competencies increases the chances of success in the students' intimate and functional life and an innovative teaching methodology, with proven effectiveness, can benefit many other students and institutions, making the classes and the academic learning process more attractive and productive; and that society, likewise, is contemplated with the addition of new entrepreneurs. This research has an applied nature, with descriptive objectives, based on a qualitative approach and characterized as a case study. She completed a class on the technical course of Administration at the Professional Education Center “Tancredo Neves”. For its realization, stimulating teaching activities of entrepreneurial skills were designed and used in the classes. A questionnaire to verify the entrepreneurial profile was applied before and after the students participated in these activities in order to identify whether or not they caused impacts in this aspect. The new teaching methodology pleased the students participating in the research, as it made it possible for them to have unprecedented experiences which made them progress personally and professionally, in addition, it made the classes more captivating and profitable. The analysis of the questionnaires answered by the students revealed that everyone was closer to being considered a true entrepreneur. It was concluded, with the accomplishment of this research that the teaching methods adopted by the teachers and by the schools can directly influence in the interest, in the participation and in the development of entrepreneurial competences of the students and that the educational institutions can, effectively, add more entrepreneurs the society.