INTEGRATION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL OPTION IN TEACHING AND LEARNING OF BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAMMES IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN DELTA STATE
Keywords:
Entrepreneurial option, Business Education Programmes, Teaching and Learning Activities.Abstract
This study is on the integration of entrepreneurial option in teaching and learning of business
education programmes in tertiary institutions in Delta State. Two research questions and
hypothesis guided the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The
target population for the study was 155 students and teachers in Business education
programmes across two Tertiary institutions in Delta State. All 155 students and teachers were
sampled for the study since the population was relatively small. Data was collected using selfstructured questionnaire which was validated by three experts and yielded a reliability
coefficient score of 0.81 during a pilot study. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer
the research questions while ANOVA statistics was used to test the stated hypothesis at 0.05
level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that there is a low extent to which
entrepreneurial options are integrated into the teaching and learning of business education
programme in Tertiary institutions. The challenges of integrating entrepreneurial option were
found to include; insufficient provision of funds by the government, insatiable thirst for white
collar jobs by the Nigerian populace, business educators’ capacity, lack of infrastructural
support, inadequate instructional facilities, absence of curricular capacity to support the
integration of entrepreneurial skills, excessive workload on business educators, improper
timetable planning in tertiary institutions, and lastly, absence of research support and linkages.
It was recommended among others that, the curriculum of Business education programmes
should be refined to include entrepreneurial option integration into teaching and learning
activities in classroom so as to enable students grasp practical entrepreneurial skills and
enhance their functional knowledge of entrepreneurship.
