Factors Militating Against Effective Teaching and Learning of Business Studies in Some Junior Secondary School
Chapter One
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The objectives of the study are;
- Identifying the equipment and other facilities available for teaching business subjects in secondary schools
- Ascertaining the number of professionally trained teachers who teach these business subjects in secondary schools.
- Determining the extent of support from the government for business education programs in secondary schools
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION
The advent of Business studies stressed the need of providing the youths the educational experience which equips them with saleable skills and competence. Lawal (2002) stated that, in the past two decades, Nigeria has witnessed a compelling demand by business studies for a place in Nigerian school curriculum. Lawal further added that the thirst for trained managers, accountants, secretariat and allied staff has remained unassigned. Indeed, in recent business education has virtually imposed itself on every one of us. A good percentage of our adult population has a smattering of such business concept as foreign exchange , bunkering, budget, import, advertising and distribution. All these emphases the important of business studies in our school curriculum. Business studies are an integral part .of vocational education “which encourages the use of the head and the hands in acquiring specific practical training required in business and industry at the junior secondary school level. Business studies are taught as integrated subjects such as book keeping, commerce, office practice, shorthand and typewriting. While at the senior secondary school are allowed to stand on their own as separate subjects whereby students move towards a career option which they are likely to pursue further professional training at the university. Pubic secondary schools are government schools sponsored by public taxes that provide free education. They focus in the general education basis and controlled by school authority. Public secondary schools are local and affordable to all children. Examinations are regarded as a method of assessment of students who have gone through one level of education or another at the end of a term, a semester or academic year (Kayode 2005).Student’s failure, in examination in public secondary school is a dangerous dimension to education sector. Onafide (2010)stated that, the parents, the government, students as well as examination fraudsters are to be blamed for poor performance. He stressed that apart from the failure of government all levels to put in facilities for teaching and learning at the basic and secondary school level, teachers’ morale are also low as they are not well motivated to do their job properly. The failure of student in business studies examination is not an exception to this trend in education in Nigeria. It is true that many public secondary schools have not been given much attention to the business subjects compared with the emphasis on science and vocational subjects. Thus, with reference to Yola North Local Government Area, Adamawa state, there is student’s failure in business studies examination in public secondary schools. Business education is widely recognized as an effective pivot for development of professional or skilled manpower in all aspect of commercial, industrial and managerial areas. Osuala (2004) stated that, the advent of business studies stresses the need of providing the youth with the educational experience which equips them with saleable skills and competencies. He added that, business studies is a vocational subject taught in junior secondary school in Nigeria aimed at providing youths who may proceed to senior secondary school (SSS) to graduate with the necessary prevocational skills that will enable them to be useful to them selves and to the community in which they live.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research design
The researcher used descriptive research survey design in building up this project work the choice of this research design was considered appropriate because of its advantages of identifying attributes of a large population from a group of individuals. The design was suitable for the study as the study sought factors militating against effective teaching and learning of business studies in some junior secondary school
Sources of data collection
Data were collected from two main sources namely:
(i)Primary source and
(ii)Secondary source
Primary source:
These are materials of statistical investigation which were collected by the research for a particular purpose. They can be obtained through a survey, observation questionnaire or as experiment; the researcher has adopted the questionnaire method for this study.
Secondary source:
These are data from textbook Journal handset etc. they arise as byproducts of the same other purposes. Example administration, various other unpublished works and write ups were also used.
Population of the study
Population of a study is a group of persons or aggregate items, things the researcher is interested in getting information factors militating against effective teaching and learning of business studies in some junior secondary school. 200 staff of selected secondary schools in Nsukka educational Enugu state was selected randomly by the researcher as the population of the study.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION ANALYSIS INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Introduction
Efforts will be made at this stage to present, analyze and interpret the data collected during the field survey. This presentation will be based on the responses from the completed questionnaires. The result of this exercise will be summarized in tabular forms for easy references and analysis. It will also show answers to questions relating to the research questions for this research study. The researcher employed simple percentage in the analysis.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
It is important to ascertain that the objective of this study was to ascertain factors militating against effective teaching and learning of business studies in some secondary school.
In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing the challenges of effective teaching and learning of business studies in some secondary school
Summary
This study was on factors militating against effective teaching and learning of business studies in some secondary school. Three objectives were raised whichincluded:Identifying the equipment and other facilities available for teaching business subject in secondary schools, ascertaining the number of professionally trained teachers who teachthese business subjects in secondary schools, determining the extent of support from government for business education programme in secondary schools. In line with these objectives, two research hypotheses were formulated and two null hypotheses were posited. The total population for the study is 200 staff of selected secondary schools in Nsukka educational zone Enugu state. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made up principals, vice principals administration, senior staff and junior staff was used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentages and frequencies
Conclusion
The relevance of business education in the society is enormous and should not be compromised with. Among others, it leads to better consumer decision and tackles societal problems. Unfortunately, business education is saddled with numerous problems which make it ineffective. Such include poor curriculum content, poor funding, and lack of adequate and experienced manpower. However, there is need to remedy the ugly state of this for education in Nigeria by take appropriate measures which include provision of ICT facilities which quicken information gathering and knowledge dissemination world over
Recommendation
Having noted that business education programmes in our Institutions of learning are in deplorable state. It will be pertinent enough to advocate measure that could be geared toward ameliorating the situation. Such measure is:
- Adequate information should be provided business education
- Proper, up to date and relevant equipment for teaching and Learning should be put in place in institution that offers business education.
- Instructional material for teaching education should be provided.
- Every business education department should have a functional equipped with books.
- Adequate enlightenment campaign should be carried out in the society about the importance of business education.
- Teacher should be well remunerated. Allowance should be paid to business education.
- Professional and experienced teachers should be employed to teach business education subjects
- Regular training and re-training programmes in form of seminars, Conference, in-service training programmes, short course and workshops should be organized at regular intervals to stimulate teacher’s interest in the programmes.
- The federal government should without further delay through the federal ministry of education reintroduce the Federal Technical Teacher’s Training Programme (FTTTP) to enable business education teachers further their studies.
- ICT facilities should be making available in all business education departments in our institutions. As the world is now a global village following the presence of Internet services, students and teachers of business education will from times to times enrich and update their knowledge in the course
References
- Abraham, N. M. & Abraham L. N. (2003). Issues and challenges in the implementation of the Universal Basic education (UBE) SCHEME IN Rivers State Nigeria. Journal of Vocation, Science and Educational Development. 4 (1).
- Aina O. (1996). Issues and Trends in Business Education. Lead Paper delivered at Business Education Forum of the College of Education, Agbor, Delta State. May 27th.
- Akhere S. E. (2002). The relevance of Business Education in the 21st Century. Book of Readings in Business Education, 1 (2).
- Bassey, S. U. (2006). Universal Basic Education its fundinghtt//www2. ncsu.edu/ nceu/ aern/bassey.html.
- Ehiamentalor, E. T. (1990). Business and Economic Education Principles and Methods. Ibadan Evans Brother Nigeria.
- Federal Republic of Nigeria (2004). The National Policy on Education (4th edn.) Lagos: NERDC.
- Johnson, T. (2006). What should business education given you? A Retrieved on 4th May, 2007 from http/www.study biz and mgt.Htm.
- Osuala, E. C. (1996). Principles and methods of Business Education. Obosi: Pacific Publishers.
- Osuala, E. C. (2004). Principles and Methods of Business and Computer Education. Enugu: Cheston Agency Limited Kayode G. (2005): www.article
- base.com/college and university article/ exam-irregularities-in nigeria-school- 2550973 .html.
- Kochlar S.K (2000), Secondary school administration: Sterling publishers’ private limited. [6].
