Entrepreneurship in translator and interpreter training
Galán-Mañas, Anabel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Traducció i d'Interpretació i d'Estudis de l'Àsia Oriental)
KUZNIK, Anna (University of Wrocław)
Olalla-Soler, Christian (Università di Bologna)

Date:	2020
Description:	5 pàg.
Abstract:	This thematic section focuses on entrepreneurship education in translator and interpreter training. Fostering entrepreneurship has been one of the objectives of the European Union since the Lisbon Strategy (European Council 2000), and one means of achieving this is by mainstreaming it at all levels and all areas of education, including translation and interpreting. Entrepreneurship can be understood in many ways: from self-employment (QAA 2012) to personal and soft skills development. The European Union (2018) adopts a wide meaning of entrepreneurship and defines entrepreneurship competence as the capacity to act upon opportunities and ideas and transform them into values for others. It is therefore about creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, perseverance and teamwork. Choosing a restrictive conception of entrepreneurship - such as self-employment - or a more integrative one - such a self-employment and soft skills development - will have consequences for the teaching model that will be implemented. It is not only a question of including specific contents on how to develop a business plan, but it is also necessary to introduce a new pedagogical approach that entails changes in the combination of specific and soft skills, in the teaching and learning methodologies and in the roles of students and teachers (Lackeus 2015).
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	SDG 4 - Quality Education ; SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
Published in:	Hermes: Journal of Language and Communication in Business, Vol. 60 (2020) , p. 7-11, ISSN 1903-1785

DOI: 10.7146/HJLCB.V60I0.121307

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