Entrepreneurial Education as a New Approach to Preschool Education

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assistant professor

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate entrepreneurial education as a new approach to preschool education. This study is considered as a qualitative research type and the method employed included "Speculation" or "Speculative Essay". The data for the present study was collected using the documents review tools and the “Karsul” Thinking method was used for data analysis. According to this study, three groups of teaching-learning methods including: a) teaching-learning methods based on games and activities for children; b) teaching-learning methods based on projects, real life experience, exploration and excavation; and c) creativity and art teaching-learning methods have been chosen as the best practices in entrepreneurship education as a new approach to preschool children education. An entrepreneurial approach supports the full development of children in order to expand their capabilities in the form of an entrepreneurial lifestyle as necessary for their current and adult lives.

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