Podstawy przedsiębiorczości w opinii uczniów krakowskich liceów – szanse i oczekiwania

In 2002 “Business studies” Basics of entrepreneurship subject was introduced into the Polish post-secondary schools. According to then applicable regulation, concerning the Core Curriculum of general education, the aim of this subject is to teach students entrepreneurial skills and prepare them for active participation in social and economic life. The “Business studies” Basics of entrepreneurship subject helps young people to understand the mechanisms of market economy, prepares them to plan their future careers, develops the ability to communicate effectively and also prepares them to plan and execute tasks in the business environment. This article presents the results obtained in the new questionnaire surveys performed in selected post-secondary schools in Kraków in 2011. The research was designed to analyse fulfilment of the objectives, tasks and teaching content of business studies. Furthermore, it was to evaluate possibilities and future prospects of teaching the entrepreneurship just before introducing the changes in post secondary schools. Thus it seems justified to repeat and extend the conducted studies prior to the forthcoming introduction of curricular changes in the upper secondary school and proposed new teaching content for the Business studies subject. This paper methodologically refers to previous studies in this field, which were presented at the conference in 2004 and published in the Education - Entrepreneurship series No 1 (Osuch E., Osuch W. 2005). Furthermore, the intention of this report is to both update and supplement the previous research.