Implementation of Entrepreneurship Education Curriculum at Tertiary Institution levels
1I.F. Okoro
1Department of Curriculum and Educational Technology,Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education, Nigeria.
Abstract
This paper investigates the implementation of Entrepreneurship Education Curriculum at the Tertiary Institution levels. It tends to discuss the need for implementation of Entrepreneurship education at the tertiary institution levels. Curriculum is the total work to be done in a particular class or grade and beyond the classroom. Entrepreneur is described as an individual who engages in risk taking of starting a business, finance the business, work hard to sustain the business and finally maximize profit. Entrepreneurship education is the teaching and training given to students and would-be business men, the essential skills required to build viable enterprises, equipping the trainees with skills needed for taking responsibilities and developing initiative of the prospective trainees. Entrepreneurship Education Curriculum is described as a course or programme prepared to inculcate in students the needed ability and competency for effective performance both for their own immediate benefit and societal development.The role of Entrepreneurship in Youth Empowerment for Sustainable Development, the Challenges and implications of Implementation of Entrepreneurship Education Curriculum at Tertiary Institution Levels with recommendations where the administrators of tertiary institutions should ensure the adequate provision of instructional materials necessary for the implementation of entrepreneurship education curriculum in their institutions, the lecturers teaching entrepreneurship education in the tertiary institutions should be encouraged and trained to adopt various teaching methods to ensure proper implementation of the entrepreneurship education curriculum and so on were considered in this study.
Keywords: Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurship Education Curriculum.