O Ensino do empreendedorismo nos cursos de graduação da Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The recent changes of the past decades in work relationship, production, and consumption brought by the new information technology and communications processes have had a huge impact on the whole society, demanding from personnel new habilities and qualifications to attend this same unpredictable and dynamic working market. The introduction of entrepreneurship classes in college departments aims at the adequacy to this new social reality. Such groundbreaking form of education can be an auxiliary tool to the professional and academic refinement contributing to making sharp criticality, flexibility, initiative, and the technical capacity of innovation, allowing students to face the challenges of these postmodern organizations. To evaluate the development of the content of entrepreneurship in College degree courses at UFGD (Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados), it was analyzed the institutionalization of the teaching process that came through the Institutional Developmental Plan (PDI) and through the Courses Pedagogical Projects (PPC) respective to ones which included this new curriculum. It was also identified in a search at the Dean office the main development projects which focused on entrepreneurship; the spectrum of analysis covered graduate curriculum, research, and post-graduate and extension. The present research has investigated how the disciplines related to entrepreneurship are being perceived by graduate coordinators; as part of the research it was also mapped the main public policies adopted by the Federal Government concerning the theme. The Study Case was structured as having the first step the bibliographical analysis of the entrepreneurship theme, followed by the PPC analysis of each degree course, having as support each of the projects developed by the dean faculties on graduate and post-graduate courses, research and extensions, and also the appreciation of a survey questionnaire filled by the coordinators of the specific universe in analysis. At last, it was applied the analysis of the Value Chain which objective is to identify the stakeholders, their relationships with each other, and their role in the product life cycle. In the fourth part of this dissertation the data obtained during the during the research was analyzed, it consisted of the results of survey questionnaire, the bibliographical data from the institutional bureaucratic and legal documentation, and the analysis of the Client Value Chain. At last, recommendations concerning organizational changes and related to documentation were given, all of them intending to a more effective teaching of entrepreneurship at the UFGD.