Economic Education as a Factor of Entrepreneurial Competence Formation оf Senior Students in Modern Society

The article is devoted to the topical problem: the relationship of school economic education and pupils personality formation to their business core competencies required for adaptation in the society. The purpose of the research is to prove and show the importance of economic processes in modern society and relevance of the person’s adaptation to transforming conditions. Methods. Theoretical analysis of scientific sources on psychology, economics and the results of modern practical researches has been used. Analysis of terminology, the concept of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial competence, the systematization of economic activities estimation criteria, synthesis of ideas about intellectual, emotional-volitional sphere, a synthesis of information on the processes of competence formation have been applied. Results. The importance of economic education for senior students has been studied in order to increase the efficiency of their entrepreneurial competence formation. The structure of economic education, its influence on the process of the personality’s formation has been researched. The necessity of conceptual changes in school economic education has been substantiated. Entrepreneurial competence is characterized as the integral psychological quality of the individual, which manifests itself through the ability to search and implement new economic ideas in practical forms of activity. The entrepreneurial competence of the student is the basis for the socio-psychological adaptation of the individual in the modern society. The results of the study has showed that in the process of economic education of high school students there is the formation and self-determination of the individual; formation of intellectual, social, emotional and volitional readiness for entrepreneurship and formation of entrepreneurial competence. Conclusions. In connection with the transformation changes taking place in the economy and in the society altogether there has been a need to improve renovation of school economic education, as a result of which the formation of the personality’s entrepreneurial competence takes place.