Educação empreendedora no ensino fundamental: o programa jovens empreendedores primeiros passos (jepp)

Abstract

Teaching entrepreneurship to these students stimulates the perception and enjoyment of opportunities that add value to the society, helping them to broaden their knowledge and to have a broader vision of how to achieve an improvement in quality of life. In this context, this work has as a general objective how the SEBRAE's project “Jovens Empreendedores Primeiros Passos (JEEP)” contributes to the incentive to entrepreneurship in elementary education. Its specific objectives are: presentation of the application process of “Jovens Empreendedores Primeiros Passos (JEPP)” Project in elementary schools; identify as characteristics of the entrepreneurial education in the methodology used by the “Jovens Empreendedores Primeiros Passos (JEPP)” program; and analyze the main impacts and results obtained with the implementation of the Jovens Empreendedores Primeriros (JEPP) program in terms of real-time education. For that, a qualitative research was carried out, in which it has applied forms with 64 teachers, interviews with 3 consultants and researches in institutional documents. In this way, it can be seen that the project provided great achievements in the students' lives, such as a valuation of the environment, a sense of collectivity, creativity, performance increase, among others. In addition, it is not necessary to change among teachers applying the methodology, besides impacting on a school community, a better integration of the participating agents, collective learning and local culture development.