Enhancing Entrepreneurial Education in South African Primary and Secondary Schools: Perspectives from Teachers in the Limpopo Province
Enhancing Entrepreneurial Education in South African Primary and Secondary Schools: Perspectives from Teachers in the Limpopo Province

Summary/Abstract: This study has investigated teachers’ perspectives on enhancing entrepreneurial education in South African primary and secondary schools in the Limpopo Province. It has been motivated by a gap in the literature that indicated further research was needed. A sample of 101 teachers from rural and town-ship schools employed a quantitative method. Data were collected using a Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Entrepreneurship Education questionnaire focusing on the importance of entrepreneurship education within a school context. They were analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 25.The study demonstrated a solid Cronbach alpha reliability score of 0.90 with satisfactory face validity. The results showed that teachers expressed a need for time, training, financial resources, physical resources for classroom use, networking opportunities and sharing best practices to successfully implement entre-preneurship education in schools. It is recommended that entrepreneurship be taught as an individual subject in schools to yield entrepreneurial - minded learners from a young age who will be innovative thinkers, problem solvers, and business - minded

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