Ancillary 9:

What is your final research topic and why are you interested in it?

Using Entrepreneurship Education as a way to drive Aboriginal students to school

The question I’ll be answering is: What Might the Way Other Countries Deal with this Issue Teach Us?

In 2018, I visited an Aboriginal school in the northern territory of Australia. In a remote village was the Jabiru Area school. We spent limited time at the school but I left there wanting to help in any way I can. Since my visit, I have had the idea of gaining a degree in education so that I can teach Aboriginal children. However, many question arise when I think about the kind of impact I could have on Aboriginal kids. When I visited the Jabiru Area School, the teachers made it a point of empathises that sometimes the kids just simply didn’t come to school. Hardly any would attend every day of the week. Most would come maybe once a week. There are a number of reasons that these kids don’t attend school. One being family issues disabling them from attending but the main one being simply not wanting to go to school. The main question that therefore arises for me is how could one make coming to school for these kids exciting How could I make these kids want to attend school everyday. It’s a tough issue that I don’t expect to solve by myself but after some research into the topic, some solutions in other countries have already arisen. In particular Canada. Canada have implemented a new system of schooling. Known as Entrepreneurship Education. From the research I have conducted, this form of education steers away from testing and exams and rather focuses on skills to build their own success in the workforce from an earlier age. Entrepreneurship education aims to persuade “individuals to take up self-employment as a career by inculcating a specific curricular canon (accounting, financial management, marketing, and venture plans) purported to lead to entrepreneurial success”. This form of education in Canada is proving to be a lot more engaging as Indigenous peoples in their country are interested in building their own skills and focusing on what they want to do with their careers.