Designing an entrepreneurship and production curriculum model for high school students

Today, countries around the world attach special importance to "entrepreneurship" as a vital factor of stability and economic growth. Entrepreneurship is one of the main factors in creating economic value and an effective tool to reduce unemployment. Entrepreneurship education and training in developed countries is a significant part of the education programs of schools, universities, organizations and institutions. The task of secondary education is to prepare young people to choose the paths of life and to shape these paths in order to accept responsibilities in the future. Therefore, the present study has tried to collect information from various documents and sources based on the evaluation of the current curriculum from the perspective of relevant groups (specialists, teachers and students) to design the optimal model Entrepreneurship and Production curriculum (EPC) based on the main elements of the curriculum (objectives, content, learning activities and evaluation). In addition, in order to validate the designed model, it was provided to the curriculum specialists and educational staff, and finally, it presented the designed model along with suggestions and solutions. This research is applied from the perspective of purpose and is of evaluation type and the method of conducting it is field research. The statistical population of the study includes curriculum specialists in the field of entrepreneurship, all teachers working to teach entrepreneurship and production and all students studying in the second year of high school in Ahvaz city in the academic year 2020-2021. Sampling of specialists by purposive sampling method by selecting 14 people as a sample and in the group of teachers by simple random method and by selecting 89 teachers and in the group of students using Cochran's formula by stratified random sampling method, and it was done by selecting 300 people. Data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire that was redesigned using semi-structured interviews and descriptive statistics, and inferential statistics (Chi-square) were used to analyze the data. Statistically, there is a difference between the opinions of the study groups in the element of objectives, content, learning activities and evaluation of the current EPC of the second secondary school. Therefore, based on the results of evaluation and semi-structured interviews with experts and teachers, the proposed model has been designed.