Analysis of teaching performance in education for entrepreneurship in a Spanish context

Abstract

The current job insecurity and the lack of entrepreneurial initiative in young people make it necessary to promote an education for entrepreneurship in the school space to awaken in the students the creativity, innovation, autonomy and the search for opportunities. The objective of this study is to know the current state of education for entrepreneurship in the teaching staff of schools in Granada (Spain). To this end, an ad hoc questionnaire was used to collect data and a descriptive methodology with a non-experimental design by survey method, with an analysis of bivariate descriptive and correlational statistics. The sample consists of 312 teachers. It is concluded that education for entrepreneurship in such a city continues to grow, although there is still a significant room for improvement for their settlement. Teachers resort, with scarce difficulties, to a traditional methodology and a theoretical approach to the treatment of entrepreneurial competition, which implies an outdated instruction that is not very motivating for the students. Both teaching genres promote entrepreneurial education although they enhance different purposes, requiring a more equitable distribution for an integral education of the learner.