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.