Entrepreneurship Education Development through Curriculum ...

Entrepreneurship education will be officially part of theFinnish comprehensive school system, following the newcurriculum reform, which has started in 2004.Entrepreneurship education will be implemented as aninteractive theme: “Participatory Citizenship andEntrepreneurship” .In the comprehensive school level entrepreneurshipeducation is about enterprise, enterpreneurialism education– inner entrepreneurship instead of externalentrepreneurship.It will be integrated into the subjects locally and could also berealised through separate projects.The current curriculum reform in Finland is to a large extent basedon a so-called partnership model (see MacDonald 2003):Administrative bodies, curriculum reformers, trade organizations,researchers and parents all take part in the curriculum reformprocess.Requires co-operation - this idea of co-operation is also reflectedin the fact that there are some indications of a certain combinationof a centralized and decentralized model of curriculum reform thatis also actually being implemented.In other words, national administrative bodies, local instances ofeducational administration and teachers co-operate in thecurriculum reform to create a sensible whole.