Entrepreneurship in school: possibility for designing and realizing dreams

Abstract

Entrepreneurship at school is very relevant, as it can articulate real situations and promote protagonism, as well as activating a teaching-learning process through the interpretation and coping with events that may occur inside or outside the school environment. Likewise, it can enable the idealization and the realization of certain aspirations, both individual and collective. Therefore, we present here an entrepreneurship project carried out in 2018 and 2019 at the Municipal School Najla Barakat, in Foz do Iguaçu/PR, which involved 22 (twenty-two) students from the 5th year of elementary school, and whose initial purpose was to contextualize concepts mathematicians with a view to the reality experienced by those involved. On the occasion, we presented activities and developed educational practices highlighting the importance of sustainable consumption and, in this sense, we shared knowledge about different types of enterprises, in addition to working towards the realization of a collective dream of that group, which aimed to undertake a graduation trip to a water park. Theoretically, the project was based on references that deal with school entrepreneurship, such as Dolabela (2003; 2006; 2008) and Dornelas (2014) and, methodologically, followed principles of collaborative work, as defined by Ferreira (2006). Thus, with this project, we concluded that contextualizing the teaching of mathematical concepts with the reality experienced by students makes learning effective, and that proceeding in an entrepreneurial, cooperative and collaborative way produces many positive results, such as values, mutual respect, the development of autonomy, creativity and various mathematical abilities.