Implementation of the “Creative entrepreneurship” Discipline at the T. K. Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts

Abstract

“Creative entrepreneurship” is an educational course on which a group of teachers from the Art Management and Producing Department have been working since 2018, although the relevance of its introduction into the educational process of creative universities has long been overdue to the transition of the world economy from industrial to post-industrial (creative). On the way of work on the implementation of the course, the teaching staff of the department took advanced training courses and started a partnership with the Institute for Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths University of London (UK) and Impact Hub Almaty as part of the international educational project “Creative Spark” conducted by the British Council. Within the framework of the partnership, trainings on creative entrepreneurship were developed and conducted, a course syllabus for 6 ECTS credits was developed, which since 2020 has been introduced into the curricula of the “Art Management” specialty. The specialists have a vision for the development of the program – now the educational and methodological manual “Creative Entrepreneurship” is being published, it is planned to conduct research and further publishing of educational literature on the subject. As a summary, the author concludes that creative entrepreneurship is developing in Kazakhstan, which is proved by the “Roadmap for the Development of Creative Industries” developed in the country at the government level. However, in several areas, such as the introduction of special educational programs, the development of trainings, competitions, the publication of books and magazines, it is necessary to work actively and immediately, since Kazakhstan may lag behind developed countries in restructuring its economy in accordance with the realities and challenges of our time.