The Internal and External Factors of the Hidden Curriculum

Identification Model in Business Incubator

Prof. Dr. Francisco ZagariProf. Dr. Emanuel Leite

This research aims to describe theinternal and external factors of theHidden Curriculum IdentificationModel in a Business Incubator.

1 – ABSTRACT

The research is exploratory and qualitative. It isa case study in the Technology DevelopmentCentre of the University of Brasilia with six (6)incubated companies. The method used wasthe structured interview and observations.

2 – METHODOLOGY

What are the internal and external factors of the Hidden Curriculum?Do the internal and external factors

of the hidden curriculum in business incubator contribute to learning?

3 – RESEARCH QUESTIONS

The concept of hidden curriculum was usedfor the first time by Philip Jackson, in 1968, inthe book "Life in classrooms" where heobserved the classroom and student learningin school.

4 – HIDDEN CURRICULUM

To identify internal and external factors, we used the concept

of Hidden Curriculum of Silva (2001) : "This includes all those

aspects of the school environment that, without being part of

the official explicit curriculum, contribute implicitly to relevant

social learning, what is learned in the hidden curriculum are:

attitudes, behaviors, values and guidelines. "

5 – HIDDEN CURRICULUM

Internal and External Factors of the Hidden Curriculum Identification Model are:

Attitudes, behaviors, values and guidelines.

6 – INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS

Richard Cantilon, Irish economist, used the termentrepreneur in 1755, in his work entitled "Essai",defining entrepreneur as someone who organizes and

takes risks, aiming to earn profits.

7 -ENTREPRENEUR

Schumpeter (1911) when he developed the EconomicDevelopment Theory defined entrepreneur as: "theresponsible for the process of creative destruction, and thefundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalistengine in motion, creating new products, new production

methods, new markets, overlapping the old methods. "

8 -ENTREPRENEUR

Emanuel Leite (2001) defined entrepreneurial incubator companies as "the individual who creates a company to make products or services using high technological content, incorporating principles or

innovative processes of recent applications, even if not unprecedented."

9 -ENTREPRENEUR

10 – BUSINESS INCUBATORS

According to ANPROTEC (Brazil), the Technology Based Business Incubators are institutions linked to universities, government agencies or research institutes that offer physical structure, business support, technical support and consultancy to new business formation.

Entrepreneurship

Hidden Curriculum

Business Incubators

11 – LITERATURE REVIEW

The research described the internal and external factors ofthe hidden curriculum present in the Business Incubator as:

attitudes, behaviors, values and guidelines. These factors contribute to learning of entrepreneurs who are in the

environment of a Business Incubator.

12 – CONCLUSION

INCUBATORS

. ATTITUDE. BEHAVIOR

. VALUES. GUIDELINES

SUBJECT INDUCER ENVIRONMENT

13. MODEL IDENTIFICATION OF HIDDEN CURRICULUM

INTERNAL FACTORS

EXTERNALFACTORS

LEARNING

14 -Contributions for future research - Questions

What are the values, attitudes, behaviors and guidelines that influence on learning? Can the hidden curriculum influence on other learning environments? Can we measure an individual assessment concerning the hidden curriculum with internal and external factors on learning?

Is there a predictor power of values on attitudes and behaviors and guidelines in a learning environment?

Are there in the DNA composition of individuals values, attitudes, behaviors and guidelines that work in learning? Is the hidden curriculum a reproduction

of society to the individual merely ?

14 -Contributions for future research - Questions

How do the internal and external factors of values, attitudes, orientations and behaviors influence on learning? Can we measure the values, attitudes,

orientations and behaviors in a learning environment? Which are the most preponderant

factors in the hidden curriculum: internal or external?

14 -Contributions for future research - Questions

Contatos: Prof. Dr. Francisco Zagari

zagarif@gmail.comProf. Dr. Emanuel Leite

emanueleite@gmail.com.br