Pedagogic Approaches for Teaching Entrepreneurship in Business Education Programme in Nigeria Universities

Jude Daniel A. Utoware, B. E. Okoli

Abstract


The study ascertained the extent business education lecturers considered pedagogic approaches for teaching entrepreneurship in the business education programme. Two research questions guided the study while two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The survey research design was adopted for the study with population and sample of 75 business educators in universities offering business education in South-East Nigeria. Data were collected using a 30-item structured questionnaire. The instrument was validated by three experts. Cronbach Alpha reliability method was used to obtain a reliability coefficient (0.96) for the entire instrument. Seventy-five copies of the questionnaire were administered to the respondents by the researcher with the help of eight research assistants. Out of the 75 copies of the questionnaire administered, 73 copies were retrieved and filled. Data collected were analysed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while the null hypotheses were tested using t-test statistics. The study found out that the business education lecturers considered business plan development and mentoring interaction pedagogic approaches effective for the teaching of entrepreneurship in the business education programme. There were no significant differences in the mean ratings of the respondents on 19 out of the 30 pedagogic approaches is considered effective for the teaching of entrepreneurship, whereas there were significant differences in the mean ratings of the respondents on the remaining 11 items. Therefore, the study recommended among others that, there should be the training of business education lecturers in business plan development and mentoring interaction pedagogic approaches for effective teaching of entrepreneurship.


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