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Title: NEED ANALYSIS APPROACH TO THE DESIGN OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP-ORIENTED ECONOMICS CURRICULUM FOR COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN
NIGERIA |
Authors: Yahaya James, Nigeria |
Abstract: Nigeria graduates can only be self-employed if they acquire relevant skills and knowledge for
successful establishment in occupation and gainful employment. It is believed that
entrepreneurship is significant force in shaping the changes that take place in the economy. This
shaping education system towards this direction will immensely contribute in building
entrepreneurship mindset as most of the teacher training programmes in Nigeria have concentrated
more on teaching knowledge and skills in principles devoid of practical experience in related field.
The study was therefore carried out on the need to design an entrepreneurship-oriented Economics
curriculum for the NCE training programme on the basis of the needs of the learners as perceived
by lecturer and students of Economics. The study employed a survey research design. Multistage
sampling was used to select 200 NCE II and III students from the target population of 1870
students from four sampled Colleges of Education in the North Central Nigeria. 40 Economics
educators were purposively use for the study. Two researcher design questionnaire for the lecturers
and students. Cronbach Alpha Coefficient value of 0.835 and 0.725 for students and lecturers
respectively were used to obtain data from field survey. The data collected were analysed using
mean, standard deviation and T-test at 0.05 level of significant. Based on the findings, an
entrepreneurship-oriented Economics curriculum been proposed for implementation by NCCE.
This would develop the spirit culture of entrepreneurship and arrest the disturbing trend of massive
unemployment among NCE graduate. It was recommended that needs analysis should be
employed to design an entrepreneurship-oriented curriculum contents for Economics and other
core subjects in Nigeria College of Education. |
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