Entrepreneurial skills and socio-cultural factors: an empirical analysis in secondary education students

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (7/8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Rosique-Blasco ◽  
Antonia Madrid-Guijarro ◽  
Domingo García-Pérez-de-Lema
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Risk Tolerance ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Logit Estimation

Purpose The aim of this paper is to explore how entrepreneurial skills (such as creativity, proactivity, and risk tolerance) and socio-cultural factors (such as role model and businessman image) affect secondary education students’ propensity towards entrepreneurial options in their future careers. Design/methodology/approach A sample of secondary education students in the Region of Murcia (Spain) has been used. Data were collected through questionnaires and analysed using logit estimation. Confirmatory Factorial Analysis (CFA) was used to validate the measures. Findings The results of this research study show that both the skills and socio-cultural factors positively affect entrepreneurial intention of secondary education students. Creativity, proactivity and risk taking promote entrepreneurial career. In addition, those students whose role model is an entrepreneur and have a better understanding of him or her, show a greater propensity towards entrepreneurial career. Originality/value The contribution to the literature on entrepreneurship is twofold. Firstly, although there are studies focused on identifying the entrepreneurial profile of university students, there is a paucity of empirical evidence relating to entrepreneurial skills at earlier stages of learning. This paper sets out to bridge this research gap. Secondly, evidence of the importance of socio-cultural factors, role models and entrepreneurial image upon the career orientation of secondary education students is identified and empirically verified. These findings involve are useful in practice, in aiding the design of better and more relevant education programs at early learning stages.

scholarly journals The Influence of Higher Learning Environment and Role Model towards an Entrepreneurial Intention among TVET Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Rifhan Roslan ◽  
Nur Iliza Misnan ◽  
Dzulkarnain Musa
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Role Model ◽  
National Development ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Learning Methods

The Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) field is part of the drive for national development. With the circumstances, the TVET institutions have taken steps towards creating future entrepreneurs as well as contributing to high-skilled employment. Thus, the study was conducted to examine several factors related to higher learning environment and role model as well as their relationship with entrepreneurship intentions among TVET students. The study was hypothesized and tested using three dimensions of TVET higher learning environment (entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship activities and teaching and learning methods) and role model factors that influence students' entrepreneurial intention. The results from correlation analysis found that there was a relationship between all the independent variables; entrepreneurship activities, role models, entrepreneurship education and teaching and learning methods with entrepreneurial intentions. The overall results of the study act as an enlightenment for related parties in developing future entrepreneurship society for the development of the country.

scholarly journals Developing and Piloting a Pedagogy for Teaching Innovation, Collaboration, and Co-Creation in Secondary Education Based on Design Thinking, Digital Transformation, and Entrepreneurship

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanassios Androutsos ◽  
Vasiliki Brinia
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Teaching Innovation ◽  
Culture Of Learning ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Way Of Thinking

In Secondary Education, students need innovative skills and competences that the current education system does not sufficiently offer. Also, educators need pedagogical support to develop teaching to respond to 21st century skills requirements. In order to achieve these goals, an experimental culture of learning needs to be implemented in practice. The aim of this paper is to introduce and pilot a pedagogy for teaching innovation, collaboration, and co-creation in secondary education. The proposed pedagogy is based on a designerly way of thinking, digital competences, and entrepreneurial spirit, together with an experimental culture of creating, making, and collaborating in order to improve students’ innovative, co-creative and collaborative way of thinking and making. The main finding is that the proposed pedagogy enhanced innovative, collaborative and co-creative student competences. Moreover, digital and entrepreneurial skills gave the ability to the students to create new valuable products and services.

An Empirical Study on the Antecedents of Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (05) ◽  
pp. 1640011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Morales-Alonso ◽  
Iciar Pablo-Lerchundi ◽  
Ana M. Vargas-Perez
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Negative Role ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship ◽  
Entrepreneurial Role

This study sheds light on the importance of the exposure to entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial role models regarding the entrepreneurial intention of engineering students, as they are the potential founders of new knowledge intensive start-ups. With this purpose, a questionnaire surveying a sample of 851 engineering students from a technical university in Spain is developed. The results point out that parents who own a business foster entrepreneurial intention and related attitudes in their sons/daughters. To the contrary, civil servants are identified as a negative role model, hindering both attitudes and intentions towards entrepreneurship.

Career Choice among String Music Education Students in American Colleges and Universities

1999 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Gillespie ◽  
Donald L. Hamann
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Education Students ◽  
String Education ◽  
Teaching Role ◽  
String Music Education ◽  
Teaching Music ◽  
String Music

The objective of this study was to identify teacher strategies for attracting school orchestra students to string teaching. Full-time string music education professors at 17 universities surveyed their music education students who were principally string players. Students were asked to describe their background, reasons for choosing teaching, and recommendations of approaches for teachers to use to interest students in string teaching. Results of the 153 completed surveys revealed that the majority of string music education students are female undergraduates who previously participated in school orchestras. Students chose string education because they liked teaching, music, children, playing their instrument, and being a role model for children. To attract others to teaching, respondents suggested that teachers be teaching role models for their students by showing their love for music and teaching, relating positively to students, giving special teaching opportunities and support to students interested in teaching, discussing the rewards of string teaching, and challenging students musically.

scholarly journals Role model and entrepreneurial intention of small business owners in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3D) ◽  
pp. 273-281
Author(s):  
Rita Omon Akhidue Ogogo ◽  
Mary Shadrach Omofowa ◽  
Chijioke Nwachukwu ◽  
Hieu Minh Vu
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Small Business Owners ◽  
New Business ◽  
The Impact

The study aims to explore the impact of role models on the entrepreneurial intentions (EI) of small business owners in Nigeria. Specifically, the impact of the gender role model, the education role model, and the age role model on entrepreneurial intention. The authors have surveyed selected small business owners in Edo State Nigeria. The study uses regression analysis to analyze data collected from 120 business owners. The result suggests that gender role model has a significant effect on entrepreneurial intentions. The education role model has a significant effect on EI. Furthermore, age role model significantly influences entrepreneurial intentions. Authors, therefore, have concluded that perceived similarity of role model personal attributes influence potential entrepreneurs' willingness to establish a new business.

Behavioral and demographic predictors of staff ratings of role model status in a corrections-based therapeutic community for women

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 159-167
Author(s):  
Ashleigh I. Hodge ◽  
Keith L. Warren ◽  
Jessica V. Linley
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Therapeutic Community ◽  
Peer Interactions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Network Characteristics ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Staff Members

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine personal and social network characteristics that predict staff ratings of therapeutic community (TC) resident role model status. Design/methodology/approach – In all, 49 incarcerated female residents tracked interactions with peers, including verbal affirmations and corrections, during a 12-hour period. Two weeks later, staff members were surveyed about their view of participants as role models. Poisson regression was used to analyze resident interactions and demographics as predictors of role model status. Findings – The number of corrections given to peers was positively related to staff ratings of role model status (B=0.234, SE=0.088, p=0.008). The number of affirmations given was negatively related to staff ratings (B=−0.112, SE=0.051, p=0.028). Resident phase was positively related to staff ratings (B=0.256, SE=0.102, p=0.012). These values did not significantly change when controlling for affirmations and corrections received from peers, non-programmatic interactions between residents, or resident demographics. Research limitations/implications – These results imply that TC staff judge role model status by resident actions in the community rather than demographics or peer reactions. External validity is limited by the single site, case study design, and the fact that only female TC residents were sampled. Originality/value – This study is the first to track resident peer interactions over the course of a day and to link those interactions to role model status.

Successful Entrepreneurship as Developmental Outcome

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 174-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Obschonka ◽  
Rainer K. Silbereisen ◽  
Eva Schmitt-Rodermund
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Authoritative Parenting ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Entrepreneurial Success ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Age Appropriate

Applying a lifespan approach of human development, this study examined pathways to entrepreneurial success by analyzing retrospective and current data. Along the lines of McClelland’s ideas of early entrepreneurship development and Rauch and Frese’s Giessen-Amsterdam model on venture success, we investigated the roles of founders’ adolescent years (early role models, authoritative parenting, and early entrepreneurial competence), personality traits (Big Five pattern), and entrepreneurial skills and growth goals during venture creation. Findings were derived from structural equation modeling studying two comparable samples of founders (N = 531) and nascent founders (N = 100) from Germany. Across both samples, reports on age-appropriate entrepreneurial competence in adolescence and an entrepreneurial Big Five profile predicted entrepreneurial skills during venture creation, which in turn predicted founders’ setting of ambitious growth goals and entrepreneurial success. Early entrepreneurial competence was related to the availability of entrepreneurial role models and authoritative parenting during adolescence as well as to an entrepreneurial Big Five profile. In line with prospective reports on early precursors of entrepreneurship, the findings illuminate the development of entrepreneurship in general and entrepreneurial success in particular over the lifespan, especially with regard to factors relevant in the adolescent years and the interplay with personality across different developmental periods.

Significance and Role of Athletes in Ethical Education of Youth

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-74
Author(s):  
Ivana Markov Čikić ◽  
Aleksandar Ivanovski
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Ethical Education ◽  
Open Issue ◽  
Clear Identification ◽  
Relationship Of

Summary One cannot write about the relationship of young people and current sports stars in modern society without having previously studied the processes of mediation and globalisation of sport, and the transformation of traditional social values. The goal of the science and practice engaged in sports and education of young people is a constant quest for preserving universal ethical values and reconciling them with the modern-day social processes. This paper will present the result of a survey conducted with adolescents in five different Serbian cities in order to find the answer to the question if sportspersons were their favourite television role-models. According to the results of our survey, 45% of adolescents do not have a favourite TV personality and do not know for sure who that could be. Novak Đoković, who would be the choice of adults for a role model of the young, with 63.2% according to the survey conducted by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, scored 3.81% in our survey with adolescents who would chose Novak Đoković as their favourite TV personality. The necessity of raising media literacy of young people with the aim of clear identification of sports role models who are going to improve their quality of life still remains an open issue for further research on this course.

Archetypic branding with positions of ergonomic support of marketing researches

Ergodesign ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Marijam Arpentieva
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Specific Role ◽  
Brand Strategy

The article discusses the current problems of the theory and practice of archetypal branding, analyzes the problems of archetypal branding from the perspective of ergonomic support for marketing research. In the framework of modern ergonomics, one of the tasks of its development is the ergonomic support of marketing research, including research on the development and evaluation of the effectiveness and productivity of the brand. A brand that is developed by marketers in accordance with a particular archetype or a specific role model can not only gain consumer recognition, but also help them formulate a way to express themselves. A role model in terms of the ergonomic support of marketing research can be used to develop a brand strategy: it represents an image that reflects a person’s ideas about a desirable role in the community. The client seeks not only to demonstrate this image to people, but also to use it in order to support and transform his own identity. At the same time, role models, unlike archetypal structures, practices and theorists from the standpoint of ergonomic support of marketing research typologize, based directly on a comparison with the leading motives of life and consumption. Role models correspond to different consumption situations, without contradicting the specific cultural and historical context. From the position of ergonomic support of marketing research, they should and can be used as functions specific to a given community, region, and time, as well as transcultural or supercultural structures that reflect one or another pole of the archetype in a particular cultural and historical environment.

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