SITUATION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ATTITUDE IN IRANIAN PRIMARY SCHOOL: TECHNOLOGY AND WORK TEXTBOOK

Abstract

Entrepreneurial attitude is an incentive force for shaping entrepreneurial culture in educational systems and play a vital role in preliminary ages. Based on, present study is conducted to analyze the content of Technology and Work textbook of grade 6 in preliminary schools according to entrepreneurial attitudes. To measure entrepreneurial attitudes, conceptual model introduced by Jafari-Moghada andFakharzadeh (2012) was used. Results indicate that 59% of Technology and Work textbook is devised by an entrepreneurial attitude. Likewise, among the aspects of entrepreneurial attitude, inclination to success and behavioral aspect has the highest frequency while other components and aspects enjoy trivial frequency.

Keywords: curriculum, content analysis, primary school, entrepreneurial Attitude

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