경영 교육자의 새로운 기회와 과제-청소년을 위한 비즈니스-창업교육

Abstract

This paper proposes that we need to offer Business and Entrepreneurship courses to our school youths. It says that economic education alone will not be sufficient at all if we really wish to deal with such problem as the high rates of unemployment of the high school and college graduates. The economic education done in the past for the school youth has been criticized for being totally impractical. Looking for the reasons of impracticality, it analyzes into the contents of the high school economic textbook thoroughly, using as benchmark the Voluntary National Standards in Economics set by the National Council of Economic Education in the U.S. It finds that the textbook is completely devoid of the concepts of business and business motivation and it never deals with entrepreneurship whereas the U.S. Standards require them as the major topics and contents in their economic courses. The paper goes on to emphasize that our school should go beyond strengthening economic education. It stresses that it is time to teach students the basics of business and entrepreneurship as regular courses in the curriculum in place of the economics or in addition to it. To support the argument, this paper illustrates and observes diverse aspects of necessities pertaining to the business/entrepreneurship education internally as well as internationally. It concludes that business educators should be aware of a new opportunity coming around and alerts them to be ready to help create new courses on Business and Entrepreneurship into the school curriculum.