Empowering The 21st Century Building Technology Students Through Entrepreneurship Education
Journal Title: American journal of Engineering Research - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 12
Abstract
This study examined the role of Entrepreneur Education in empowering the 21st century students of Building Technology in Nigeria. It is observed that our country has a high rate of unemployment, low standard of living, and other social vices. This may be attributed to some defects in our educational system which focuses more in preparing youths to seek for employment. Vocational education which has the aim of preparing the youths as employees and employers of labour can help to redress these current unemployment problems. It was observed that the current educational system only succeeded in equipping the youths with employability skills, but lacks the ability of helping them to become employers of labour by establishing their own enterprises. Consequently, it is necessary for our youths to obtain the essential entrepreneurial skills that will enable them fit properly into the Nigerian labour market. The study also showed that if appropriate vocational and entrepreneurial education is inculcated in our youths, the incessant rate of kidnapping and other anti-social behaviours will be ameliorated. The study discussed varieties of vocational and technology education skills which includes building technology and entrepreneurship education. Based on the findings, the following recommendations were made; all the stake holders in entrepreneurship education and building technology programme must corporate together, the curriculum developers, lecturers/ instructors and the students/learners must play their roles effectively, there is a need to match technical vocational education with labour market demands of the society and industry, students of building technology programme should undergo practical parts of their courses with builders within their host community, woodwork technology students should practise major parts of their studies in woodwork shops within the immediate locality and entrepreneurship education curriculum should be developed in a way to enhance functionality of building technology programmes.
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Dr. Dokubo,, Isaac nwojiewho
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