University Youth Exposure to Entrepreneurship Education Through Social Networking Sites and Its Relation with Forming Their Attitudes Towards Small Projects

Document Type : Original Article

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Professor, Department of Educational Media, Faculty of Specific Education - Benha University

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate the extent of university youth dependence on social networking sites as a source of entrepreneurial education and its relationship with forming their attitudes towards small projects. It is a descriptive study relied on the sample survey method that  used the questionnaire as an instrument to collect data. The study was  applied to a random sample of (400) students from the fourth year students in practical and theoretical colleges at Benha University in Qalyubia Governorate. 
of The results of the study revealed the following:

A large percentage of the participants confirmed their follow-up to entrepreneurship education through social networking sites to develop their knowledge small projects.
The results revealed that the positive attitude is predominant in the participants' attitude towards the role of entrepreneurial education through social networking sites in the development of small projects.
The results showed that 77% of the total sample believe that entrepreneurship education through social networking sites "largely help" in directing the interests of university youth towards small projects.
The mean was an average in the total score on the statements that reflect the level of university youth’s attitudes towards the practice of working in small projects, and the highest order of these statements was "You have an intention to work in small projects" where it  got a high score with an mean of 2.53. This result is consistent with the latest international reports on entrepreneurship and free work which clarified that  Egyptian youth have a strong desire to pursue entrepreneurial work.
There is a positive correlational relationship with statistical significance between the degrees of dependence of the participants on social networking sites to follow up on entrepreneurial education and the degrees of their attitudes towards small projects.
There are statistically significant differences the mean scores of the participants on the attitude scale  towards small projects scale, according to the difference in the type of study in favor of practical specializations.

 
 

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