Entrepreneurship Education in Teacher Education: A Means of Wealth Creation

Abstract

The rate of unemployment in Nigeria is soaring high. Even more disturbing
is the frustration and restlessness it breeds among the youths especially
graduates. The Teacher Education landscape is also not spared of this high
unemployment rate. Innovative strategies need to be developed that cater
specifically for the entrepreneurship educational needs of students. The
higher institutions need to provide practical training in entrepreneurship
to their students, to make them more aware of the benefits of
entrepreneurship and to address the factors that impact on developing
entrepreneurial education. This paper focuses on tackling unemployment
for graduate teacher through the use of information and communication
technology (ICT) as a tool for developing learning resources for schools,
and; as means of wealth creation. The paper therefore recommends among
others that trainee teachers be given quality practical training in educational
technology course as a means of skills development in learning materials
production and establishing self-employment and entrepreneurship
mentality in students during the academic year.