Relevance of Business Education on Entrepreneurship and Vocational Aspiration of Secondary School Students

Relevance of Business Education on Entrepreneurship and Vocational Aspiration of Secondary School Students

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PRELIMINARY PAGES

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

    CHAPTER TWO

    LITERATURE REVIEW

    • 2.1 Introduction
    • 2.2 Conceptual Review
    • 2.3 Theoretical Framework
    • ⋮
    • 2.4 Empirical Studies

    CHAPTER THREE

    RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 Research Design
    • 3.3 Population of Study
    • 3.4 Sampling and Sampling Technique
    • 3.5 Validation of Research Instrument
    • 3.6 Method of Data Collection
    • 3.7 Method of Data Analysis
    • 3.8 Questionnaire Administration
    • 3.9 Ethical Consideration
    • 3.10 Statistical Analysis

    CHAPTER FOUR

    DATA ANALYSIS, RESULT AND DISCUSSION

    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 Presentation and Analysis of Data
    • 4.3 Re-statement of Research Questions
    • 4.4 Test of Hypotheses
    • 4.5 Discussion of Findings

    CHAPTER FIVE

    SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

    • 5.1 Introduction
    • 5.2 Summary of Findings
    • 5.3 Conclusion
    • 5.4 Recommendation
    • 5.5 Suggestion for Further Study

    REFERENCES

    APPENDIX A - “QUESTIONNAIRE”

    ABSTRACT

    Business education is an education for business and about business. It equips its recipients with creative skills that would make them to perform well as entrepreneurs. The study was carried out to examine the Relevance of Business Education on Entrepreneurship and Vocational Aspiration of Secondary School Students. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out to examine the factors affecting the teaching of business education on entrepreneurship among secondary school students and find out the benefits of secondary school students' vocational aspiration in the area under review. Investigation revealed that there are student’s failures in business education, which may be due to a lack of qualified teachers, insufficient teaching and learning facilities and a lack of confidence on the part of teachers and students. The research design used in this report is descriptive design, utilizing questionnaire method to obtain information from the respondents for this project. A total of 200 (two hundred) respondents were selected for this study to represent the entire population of the study. Primary data were collected from the primary source which questionnaire was used as an instrument of data collection while secondary data were sources from textbooks, journals, newspapers and the internet were employed. The data were presented on a frequency distribution table and analyzed using simple percentage, while hypothesis was tested using chi-square test. The relevance of this study in the field of business curriculum content will be beneficial for understanding business management and, at the same time, provides undergraduates with the knowledge, skills, and techniques arguably indispensable to start up and manage small businesses effectively. Based on the findings, it is recommended that only business educators should be allowed to teach Business education. Also, there should be adequate funding of Business education and entrepreneurs that lack Business education skills should be encouraged to acquire the skills.

    Relevance of Business Education on Entrepreneurship and Vocational Aspiration of Secondary School Students

    CHAPTER ONE

    1.1 Introduction

    Business education is described as an education for business and about business. It equips its recipients with creative skills that would make them to perform well as entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is encouraged in Nigeria because it could lead to self-employment, help in reducing unemployment and contribute towards development of the country. One of the major objectives of business education is to provide technical competencies to undergraduates to have a successful career as professionals (McVay et al., 2008). Business courses serve as an important, though not exclusive, source for such skills and competencies directly addressing desiderata related to startup businesses. Entrepreneurial education reflects the notion that, regardless of business specialization, students should enjoy equal opportunity to own businesses through a supportive education that inculcates skills requisite for entrepreneurship (Hynes & Richardson, 2007).

    As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Scope of work, Research hypothesis and questions, Limitation of the study and Definition of terms.

    1.2 Background of Study

    Business education is widely acknowledged as a pivotal factor in the development of professional or trained labor in all aspects of the commercial, industrial, and managerial sectors. According to Osuala (2004), the introduction of business studies emphasizes the need of providing children with an educational experience that qualifies them with marketable skills and abilities. He continued, Business studies is a vocational subject taught in junior secondary schools in Nigeria with the goal of providing youths who may go on to senior secondary school with the necessary prevocational skills that will enable them to be useful to themselves and to the community in which they live to graduate with the necessary prevocational skills that will enable them to be useful to themselves and to the community in which they live to be useful to themselves and to the community in which they live to be useful to themselves and to the community in which they live to be useful to He stated that all students in school would be exposed to educational experiences that would provide them a competitive advantage in the workplace. The growing interest in student performance necessitates determining the role of business education and evaluating business subjects in the educational system. Insufficient instructional quality, students’ negative attitude toward school, overcrowded classrooms, and poor facilities are among the variables impacting students’ academic performance, according to (Olujuwon, 2010).

    Business curriculum content provides students with an elementary theoretical framework for understanding business management and, at the same time, provides students with knowledge and techniques indispensable to start- ing up and managing small business effectively (Venter, 2001). While valid questions remain as to how effectively institutions of higher education prepare graduates to meet the challenges in constantly evolving and highly demanding workplaces (Rubin & Dierdorff, 2009), a lack of business knowledge and skills typically rank as the main reasons for small businesses failure (O’Gorman, 2001).

    According to Abdullahi (2002), Business education is an aspect of total educational programme which provides the recipient with knowledge, skills, understanding and attitude needed to perform well in the business world as a producer or consumer of goods and services. Furthermore, Osuala (2004) is of the opinion that Business education is a broad area of knowledge that deals with a nation’s economic system and also identifies and explains the rate of business contentment and experience that prepare individuals for effective participation as citizens, workers and consumers.

    According to Adegun and Akomolafe (2013) explained the concept of entrepreneurship development as a gradual growth of creative and economic and social venture. It involves establishing an individual to explore, opportunities successfully through making a profitable or suffering loss of invested capital. It has to do with system of ideas and values that are now given attention recently as part of the tertiary institution curriculum (Mkpa, 2014). According to Onifade (2010), part of the problem stems from the inability of governments at all levels to put in place teaching and learning facilities at all secondary school levels. Some teachers’ methods, such as typewriters, shorthand, and accountancy, do not improve students’ ability to comprehend and understand the material. Shorthand and typewriting are conventionally intended skill topics.

    Therefore, in Nigeria where the research was carried out, the activities that was conducted is to know the Relevance of Business Education on Entrepreneurship and Vocational Aspiration of Secondary School Students.

    1.3 Statement of Problems

    Investigation revealed that the failure of students in business studies examinations is one of the most concerning developments in the education industry in recent years. According to a study conducted on September 23, 2011, the percentage failure of students in Doubeli Government Day Secondary School for the 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 JSCE results was 63.2 percent, 51.4 percent, 49 percent, and 54.2 percent, respectively.

    As a result, there are student failures in public secondary schools, which may be due to a lack of qualified teachers, insufficient teaching and learning facilities, insufficient infrastructure, poor teaching methods, non-completion of the syllabus before the examination, and a lack of confidence on the part of teachers and students.

    In the teaching and learning of business studies, a lack of equipment such as typewriters, computers, and other devices causes challenges. Internal and external influences have caused a lack of interest in various business studies disciplines.

    Ineffective teaching and learning of business studies in secondary schools is caused by a lack of text books on business studies courses in the school library. As a result, there is a need to address this issue and see what can be done to stop the situation from worsening. True, compared to the concentration on scientific and vocational topics, many public secondary schools have not paid sufficient attention to business studies.

    1.4 Aim and Objectives of Study

    The aim of the study is to examine the Relevance of Business Education on Entrepreneurship and Vocational Aspiration of Secondary School Students. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out as follows:

    1. To examine the factors affecting the teaching of business education on entrepreneurship among secondary school students;
    2. To evaluate the significance of business education training for vocational aspiration of secondary school students;
    3. To determine the importance of entrepreneurship business education teaching among Secondary School Students;
    4. To find out the benefits of secondary school students' vocational aspiration in the area under review; and
    5. To recommend ways of improving business education on entrepreneurship and vocational aspiration of secondary school students.

    1.5 Research Questions

    The study came up with research questions so as to be able to ascertain the above stated objectives. The specific research questions for the study are stated below as follows:

    • Are there factors affecting the teaching of business education on entrepreneurship among secondary school students?
    • What is the significance of business education training for vocational aspiration of secondary school students?
    • What is the importance of entrepreneurship business education teaching among Secondary School Students?
    • What are the benefits of secondary school students' vocational aspiration in the area under review?
    • What are the ways of improving business education on entrepreneurship and vocational aspiration of secondary school students?

    1.6 Research Hypothesis

    In order to pursue the objective of this study, the following generalized statements have been designed to guide and aids in obtaining the result for the experiment to be conducted. For this work, the null hypothesis will be represented with H0 while the alternative hypothesis will be represented with hypothesis H1.

    Hypothesis One

    • H0: There are no significant factors affecting the teaching of business education on entrepreneurship among secondary school students
    • H1: There are significant factors affecting the teaching of business education on entrepreneurship among secondary school students

    1.7 Significance of Study

    The relevance of this study in the field of business education curriculum content will be beneficial for understanding business management and, at the same time, provides undergraduates with the knowledge, skills, and techniques arguably indispensable to start up and manage small businesses effectively (Venter, 2001). The teaching and learning of business education enables students to acquire vocational skills, enhances the entrepreneurial intentions of students and establishes vocational aspirations of secondary school students.

    This study will be of immense benefit to other researchers who intend to know more on this study and can also be used by non-researchers to build more on their research work. This study contributes to knowledge and could serve as a guide for other study.

    1.8 Scope of Study

    The scope of the research is focused on the Relevance of Business Education on Entrepreneurship and Vocational Aspiration of Secondary School Students in Nigeria.

    1.9 Limitations of the Study

    During the course of this study, many things militated against its completion, some of which are:

    1. Time Constraint: The time frame given to accomplish this project was very short due to school academic calendar and it was carried out under pressure which made the researcher not to implement some necessary features.
    2. Research material: availability of research material is a major setback to the scope of the study.
    3. Frequent power failure: This made the researcher append more money on fuel to ensure sustainable power.
    4. Financial Constraint: Insufficient fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data collection (internet, questionnaire and interview).

    1.10 Definition of Terms

    Entrepreneurship Education: Seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings. Variations of entrepreneurship education are offered at all levels of schooling from primary or secondary schools through graduate university programs.

    Development: Hornby (2000) defines development as the gradual growth of something so that it becomes more advanced and stronger.

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    CHAPTER TWO

    2.0 Literature Review

    2.1 Introduction

    This chapter focuses on the review of related literature. A literature review includes the current knowledge as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. It documents the state of the art with respect to the topic you are writing. It surveys the literature in the topic selected. In this research work the literature review includes the …

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