Ways of Promoting Entrepreneurship Education in Home Economics for Self Reliance and Development
Entrepreneurship education should give students knowledge, skills and motivation for success in setting businesses of interest. It should give an idea of how to set investment opportunities when one gets to acquire skills, habits, ideas, attitudes and the creative powers for self employment or for embarking on a business of interest.
Home Economics is an area that can provide students with entrepreneurial ability in business enterprises when students from the onset are given the correct ideas on Home Economics education areas it will go a long way in providing them self employment and self-reliance in the absence of government jobs, Home Economics courses when properly put into practice can go a long way to augment and boost the family income, for comfort and better survival Ewubare, (2010).
The strategies for the attainment of the goal for the integration of entrepreneurship education in Home Economics include the planning of specific objectives, learning experiences, organization and integration of the learning experiences, and the use of instructional methods and facilities and correct techniques for assessing the attainment for specific objectives by well experienced Home Economics personnel, Lemchi and Anyakoha (2006).
Specific objectives are necessary in Home Economics curriculum for its development and implementation, they are helpful guides in selecting learning experiences, guiding learning, and they help in selecting instructional materials and are also evaluation techniques.
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