Entrepreneurship Education in Nigerian University Secondary Schools: A Comparative Analysis of Content and Administration

Azeez Babatunde Adebakin, Segun Emmanuel Alege

Abstract


Entrepreneurship education was designed to train individuals for work after school. The content contextualizes activities that espouse creation of knowledge, competencies and experiences of students’ initiatives while its administration relates to pedagogical delivery of such content. This study, therefore, compared entrepreneurial content and its administration in university secondary schools in Nigeria using the survey approach. From a population of 3,624 students and 64 entrepreneurship education teachers in five university secondary schools in southwestern Nigeria, 347 students and 12 teachers were sampled from three university secondary schools. While the university secondary schools and entrepreneurship education teachers were selected purposively based on years of establishment and subject teachers respectively, the simple random sampling was used for selection of students to give equal chance of being selected. The study found that entrepreneurship subjects are available in university secondary schools. It also showed that contents were well administered in university secondary schools and established a significant difference between the entrepreneurial contents and content administered in university secondary schools in Southwestern Nigeria. Consequently, it was recommended that government should review the curriculum so as to introduce topics that promote more of entrepreneurial intentions for harmony between curriculum content and the subject administration.

 


Keywords


Entrepreneurship education; Entrepreneurship content; Content administration; Teaching; University secondary schools

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