Improvement of new entrepreneurs self-experience in further education

the article presents the model of self-experience improvement through the example of new entrepreneurs’ further education in Latvia. During a lifetime, a person changes physically, psychically and socially. Individual changes in life activity depend on both a person and environment, where a person can or cannot fulfill oneself. Learning is one of the main components in the development of adult self-experience. The management of further education depends on the wishes of participants involved in the process to obtain new self-experience in order to improve the life quality. Research has been carried out in the group of people, who have expressed a wish to learn, in order to improve self-experience and prepare for starting business. 209 young, aspiring entrepreneurs, who volunteered to participate in the pedagogical experiment, became participants of a study course. After comparing the results of the experiment before and after the course, significant changes in the process of self-experience development have been identified. The following main components of meaningful learning were identified: 1) skill to set a goal and achieve it; 2) ability to learn how to use knowledge while obtaining new self-experience; 3) systematic self-assessment of work process and results. During the experiment, indicators of participants’ legal employment status changed. The number of self-employed people increased from 12% to 15%, while the number of employers - from 14% till 38%. The empirical study of the lerning process and the analysis of its results activate a spiral learning cycle through introducing three advanced innovative components. They are: goal awareness, which is fundamental for the whole learning process; forms of knowledge application skills; and self-assessment, which proves the necessity for a new experience, its understanding and application for achieving the goal. Therefore, the learning process of aspiring entrepreneurs acquires a new meaning.