Promoting Sustainable Automotive Repair Practices in Nigeria: Integrating Automobile Emission Control System into Pre-Service Automobile Teacher Training Curriculum

Zubairu Abubakar, Michael Ubale Cyril

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Sustainable automotive repair practice is now a significant issue in Nigeria, due to the increasing emission level from automobile sources in the country. This may be partly due to lack of knowledge and skills for the maintenance of the automobile emission control system among automobile teachers and service technicians. It was suggested that enriching the curriculum contents for automobile programmes in Nigeria can help mitigate the problem. In this paper, we focus on integrating automobile emission control systems into pre-service automobile teacher training curricula at the Colleges of Education level in Nigeria. The paper employed descriptive survey design on a population of 210 respondents. The study sampled 128 respondents, comprising 51 automobile teachers from Colleges of Education and 77 industry workshop supervisors of service industries in the North East Nigeria. Total population of the automobile teachers was used, while the purposive sampling technique was used for the workshop supervisors. Structured questionnaire validated by experts and trial tested at the Kano state was used for data collection. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was 0.87, Cronbach’s Alpha. Mean, standard deviation, and t-test were used for data analysis with the help of SPSS version 23. The findings revealed 57 important contents related to automobile emission control system for integration into pre-service automobile teacher training curriculum in Nigeria. We concluded by suggesting that integrating the 57 specific contents related to automobile emission control system into the pre-service automobile teacher training curriculum is crucial for preparing future technicians and educators to address environmental challenges caused by automobile emissions in Nigeria. 


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