Abstract:

Today, it is not only important to acquire the knowledge written in the curricula, but even more so, for better citizens, the development of competencies is important. Competence can be described as “a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes appropriate to the context”. Following the recommendations of the European Parliament (EU, 2018, p. C 189/11), competences are divided into eight key, fourteen general and subject-specific competences. Entrepreneurship is one of the key competencies that is very important in everyday life and they should be developed in each education level. Nevertheless, sometimes is difficult to anticipate and write in advance in the curricula that students will develop.

The purpose of the study is to present the impact of individual Entrepreneurship competencies on the development of other Entrepreneurship competencies on the model at high-level education in pre-service Biology teachers, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor. In study program, Educational Biology was checked 56 syllabuses for 5-years education, and nowhere were found note about developing Entrepreneurship. After reviewing the results of the survey on the development of entrepreneurship during the study, we found that future teachers of biology and chemistry are aware of the development of entrepreneurship competencies during higher education (Špernjak, 2020), but in this step, we are interested in the impact of each competence on the development of another. The Construct Validity will be checked by observing thresholds of the number of fit indices as provided by AMOS 24. With the model, we want to determine whether we should give more emphasis to one of the competencies in order to be able to develop another at the same time.

References:
[1] EU. European Commission. ˝Key Competences for Lifelong Learning – A European Framework˝. (Recommendation 2006/962/EC). 2006. Available at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2006/l_394/l_39420061230en00100018.pdf
[2] EU. European Commission. (2018). Council Recommendation on key competences for lifelong learning. Retrived from https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018H0604(01)&rid=7
[3] ŠPERNJAK, A. Pre-service and in-service teachers' views on human reproduction and sex education. In: GÓMEZ CHOVA, L. (Edu.). Edulearn20: conference proceedings, 12th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Palma (Spain), 6th and 7th of July 2020.

Keywords:

Key Competences, Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, Soft Skills.