Educação empreendedora

: uma visão holística do empreendedorismo na educação

Abstract

This research approaches entrepreneurship in education from the perspective of a researcher who intends to visualize and intersect the current scenarios of entrepreneurship and holistic education investigation fields. From this view emerges a renewed vision of entrepreneurship in education and a reasoned holistic approach of education: an “Entrepreneurial Education”. This work is divided in three chapters that compose the balanced body of the research in the attempt to introduce, deepen and synthesize which strategic education best fit into the purpose of the study. The first chapter starts with the analysis of the current conceptions of entrepreneurship and its place in education, by studying the main theories of the research field. Two main questions arise as a starting point of this part: What is entrepreneurship? What is entrepreneurship education? The second chapter proceeds into the study of new education paradigms and their grounds and strategies in relationship with the entrepreneurial concept. This part mainly intends to open up the concept to new paradigm perspectives. The conceptualization of a holistic approach to entrepreneurship education tries to answer the following questions: What is an education that contributes to the development of the entrepreneurial potential of humankind? What is an entrepreneurial education in a holistic perspective? What is an entrepreneurial school? That is the primal question of the third chapter which investigates the possibility of the existence of a school that has already explored a way in this new approach. In that sense a case study is made of a school that refutes the current orientations and dismantles the education status quo, exercising its outstanding role in the social transformation and in the creation of an entrepreneurial education community. That school is Escola da Ponte (Bridge School) – Integrated Basic School of Vila das Aves, Portugal. The evidences arise: more than projecting an education in and on entrepreneurship it is possible to live an “Entrepreneurial Education”.

Date of Award	2011
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	José Afonso Baptista (Supervisor)