Entrepreneurial Skills in Teachers of Regular Basic Education in Times of COVID-19: A Psychological Perspective

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the entrepreneurial competencies of four basic education teachers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: qualitative study, with phenomenological, hermeneutic methodology, an in-depth interview with 60 questions was applied to learn about entrepreneurial competences from the teachers' perspective. The analysis focused on the following categories: contextualization and meanings linked to COVID-19, experiences of entrepreneurship, remote work, parents in the context of distance education and evaluation of situations of being an entrepreneurial teacher through remote work.  Results: Teachers have presented difficulties for the development of their activities in the virtual environment, they had to use their creativity to get the commitment of their students through technological means (synchronous and asynchronous education); also, they took advantage of this creativity to make some of their projects effective. Conclusion: The creativity developed by teachers to improve teaching has allowed them to promote entrepreneurship projects in their students and to take as an opportunity the continuous training in terms of mastering the use of virtual platforms to develop new knowledge and adapt to the conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.