Entrepreneurial skills: a study with high school students

The interest in entrepreneurial learning and education stimulates new ways of thinking about the entrepreneurial individual and the role of education in their development. Given this context, this study aimed to recognize the entrepreneurial skills that students of the College of Application of Univali [CAU] developed in high school with the discipline of Society and Culture. The research of a descriptive nature, had a quantitative approach, being applied a self-questionnaire based on the McClelland model (1973), which highlights entrepreneurial skills in 3 sets (Achievement, Planning and Power). The population surveyed was 132 students from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of CAU High School, resulting in a sample of 66 respondents. The results showed that the students, when taking the referred discipline, developed the competence in search of opportunity and commitment in the set of achievement when they affirmed to be satisfied with the discipline. In planning, the recognition of opportunities to create products / services predominated, developing the competence to search for information. Finally, in the power set, the students stated that they believe in the success of the enterprise constituted in the discipline, that is, they developed self-confidence.