The Approaches of Developing Based on the Concept of Competency Based Curriculum for Social Entrepreneurship of Vocational Education Programs in Thailand
Keywords:
Competency based curriculum, Social entrepreneurship, Vocational educationAbstract
The purposes of this research were to: 1) study learners’ desired social entrepreneurship competencies and 2) study the needs of desired competency development of social entrepreneurship and developing competency-based curriculum for social entrepreneurship. The population and sample sized are 110 social entrepreneurs,13 experts in social entrepreneurship, 547 education administrators, 1,569 teachers and 76 experts in vocational education management, 2,315 persons in total. Questionnaires were used to collect the data. Data analysis employed mean, standard deviation, priority needs index (PNI) and exploratory factor analysis. Content analysis was used to analyze qualitative data.
The findings revealed that social entrepreneurs’ desirable competencies of students consist of 17 core competencies and 35 functional competencies. The factors in establishing a social entrepreneurship initiative could be classified into 2 aspects: i) cooperation and resource management and ii) vocational education provision. Guidelines for developing a competency-based curriculum for social entrepreneurship revealed that formal education, non-formal education, and dual education management have successfully developed short-course modules, the creation of new learning programs, to the enhancement of entrepreneurship competencies within business and management courses. Additionally, job training within social enterprises and business incubation centers at vocational education colleges, as well as the accumulation of credits in a credit bank system.
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