Educação empreendedora nos cursos de graduação: um estudo na Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Abstract

Entrepreneurial Education (EE) is a theme that has been gaining more and more space. and importance not only in the academic sphere, but also in politics and business. Therefore, Understanding the way EE has been conducted is fundamental to its improvement, contributing to the emergence of new entrepreneurs, as well as to established entrepreneurs can improve their business. The present research has to understand the entrepreneurial education offered by undergraduate courses from the Federal University of Uberlândia-MG to its students. The study is a research qualitative, descriptive and field. The study site comprises the University campuses located in Uberlândia-MG. Data were collected through document analysis and semi-structured interviews with 7 teachers and 6 coordinators of the 14 courses offering disciplines related to entrepreneurship in their curriculum matrices the data collected passed the content analysis technique. The results show that, education entrepreneurship is still a subject little explored and little encouraged within the institution that the actions and activities developed are carried out in isolated ways. The Teaching methods used by teachers are diverse, involving theory and practice, but it is clear that there is still a lot of disinterest on the part of the students, so it was noticed that the University should further encourage entrepreneurial education within the institution.