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Developing Entrepreneurial Competencies in Students through Constructivist Education

Received: 28 August 2014     Accepted: 15 September 2014     Published: 30 September 2014
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Abstract

Professional competence, as a whole, also includes the entrepreneurial field which implies, among others, innovation, planning and changing, efficient usage of the resources and development of the human networks. The purpose of this research is to highlight the role of constructivist education and the means through which it contributes to developing entrepreneurial competencies in future teachers-students. We consider that the ways of merging methods, instruments and specific entrepreneurial means can play a part in facilitating the development of entrepreneurial competencies and they present an interesting perspective to be approached.

Published in Education Journal (Volume 3, Issue 5)
DOI 10.11648/j.edu.20140305.15
Page(s) 293-302
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Keywords

Competencies, Entrepreneurship, Constructivism, Academic Education, Initial Development

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