Abstract
Entrepreneurship has always had immense effects on economic and social development. In education, both offering entrepreneurship education and graduates’ having entrepreneur personalities will contribute to advancement of developed and developing countries. Although criticized by education circles, Turkey has gone into commercialization in education with cram schools (“dershane” in Turkish) and private schools. In that vein, the society will expect entrepreneurship activities from teachers in the future, too. As the teacher trainees in education faculties aimed to work in public schools before, entrepreneurship education and research in education faculties fell behind. Obviously, investigation of entrepreneurship levels of prospective teachers will make important contributions to the literature in terms of assessing the current situation and making suggestions for the future practices. In this study, entrepreneurship level of prospective teachers is evaluated. Thedata and findings are limited to the students of Afyon Kocatepe University, Education Faculty. The attitudes and behaviours of prospective teachers regarding entrepreneurship were investigated descriptively. The study was carried out with quantitative approach and survey method was used. The data were gathered via Entrepreneurship Scale developed by Ercan and Sünbül (2009). The relationship between entrepreneurship level of students and variables (gender, family income, place of residence, if there is a successful entrepreneur in their families, whether the family have their own business, class level and the work they plan to carry on after graduation) was analysed descriptively. Stratified sampling was used to create work group which was composed of 300 students, and which was chosen from 1220 freshmen and sophomores who study in different departments. According to the reliability analysis, total Cronbach’s Alpha (ά) value was found to be .93. The participants expressed they carry out most of the behaviours mentioned in the scale items “often” and “very often”. Besides, the participants stated they carried out the behaviours and/or attitudes mentioned in 5th, 11th, and 25th items less often when compared with other items. It was found that 2 % display low level, 15 % display medium level, and 53 % of participants display high level entrepreneurship behaviours. The relationship between total scores and some variables (gender, family income, place of residence, if there is a successful entrepreneur in their families, whether the family have their own business, class level) was found to be statistically non-significant (p<.05), but the relationship between total scores and last variable (the work they plan to carry on after graduation) was found to be statistically significant (p<.05).
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