Educating for enterprise in secondary education

ABSTRACT One of the issues concerning the literature in entrepreneurship education is that the same terms are used in different ways. The article proposes to differentiate between the educational aspects of entrepreneurship and the training aspects. Entrepreneurship education, the general term embedding the others, is divided into enterprise education and entrepreneurial training. Drawing from the literature, the article proposes five important dimensions of the teacher educating for enterprise: enterprising didactics, teaching and evaluating the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship in the students, partnerships inside and outside the school, educating students for enterprising attitudes, being enterprising teachers in a life wide perspective. The article shows a questionnaire based on the five dimensions which was given to secondary teachers in an Italian technical institute. Results suggests that in the Italian technical institutes there is a lot of work to be done to have the teachers being enterprising and educating for enterprise.Peer reviewe