ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION AND THE SKILLS OF THE SCIENCE TEACHER

Abstract

This article is part of a master's research developed in a Science Teaching program, involving the themes of entrepreneurship and teacher skills. This is a qualitative research of the documental analysis type. It was investigated how entrepreneurial education is defined by researchers in the area of science teaching and whether entrepreneurial competence is contemplated in official documents (BNCC, BNC-Formação) as one of the competences of science teachers for the 21st century. In this article we address only the second part of the research question. It is believed that entrepreneurial competence, as well as others, needs to be considered in teaching training and practice, which justifies this research, whose general objective was to situate, from official documents, which student and teacher competences are related to entrepreneurial competence, with a view to contributing to the training and teaching practice of Science teachers for the 21st century. The results show that there is a correspondence between the general competences of the BNCC and the teacher's competences proposed in the BNC-Training. As for entrepreneurial competence, we identified several indicators of its presence, both in the BNCC and in the BNC-Formação, indicating paths for an entrepreneurial education.