Refocusing technical vocational teacher education towards green skill acquisition for sustainable development in Nigeria
Technical vocational teacher education is a program for training individuals who shall be productive citizens that will contribute to the sustainable development of a nation. This could best be achieved where technical vocational teacher education program focuses much attention on skill acquisition...
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my.utm.907312021-04-30T14:30:28Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/90731/ Refocusing technical vocational teacher education towards green skill acquisition for sustainable development in Nigeria Isa, M. U. Kamin, Y. B. Cledumas, A. M. L Education (General) Technical vocational teacher education is a program for training individuals who shall be productive citizens that will contribute to the sustainable development of a nation. This could best be achieved where technical vocational teacher education program focuses much attention on skill acquisition that aligns with changes in occupational trends in today's world of work. It is on this bases that this paper focused on refocusing technical vocational teacher education towards green skill acquisition for sustainable development in Nigeria. The paper highlighted the concept of technical vocational teacher education as well as green skills. The paper also viewed the relevance of green skill in Technical vocational teacher education. Challenges facing technical vocational teacher education in achieving sustainable development through green skill acquisition were also discussed. Finally restructuring of technical vocational teacher education to emphasize much on practical skill acquisition, recruiting quality and qualified teaching personnel, constant sponsorship of teaching personnel to attend seminars and workshops to bekept abreastwith new technologies and 21st century learning skillsand adequate funding of technical vocational teacher education program were among the suggestions made as a way forward in refocussing technical vocational teacher education towards green skill acquisition for the sustainable development of Nigeria. Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication 2019 Article PeerReviewed Isa, M. U. and Kamin, Y. B. and Cledumas, A. M. (2019) Refocusing technical vocational teacher education towards green skill acquisition for sustainable development in Nigeria. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 8 (1). pp. 599-602. ISSN 2277-3878 https://www.ijrte.org/wp-content/uploads/papers/v8i1C2/A10980581C219.pdf. |
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Technical vocational teacher education is a program for training individuals who shall be productive citizens that will contribute to the sustainable development of a nation. This could best be achieved where technical vocational teacher education program focuses much attention on skill acquisition that aligns with changes in occupational trends in today's world of work. It is on this bases that this paper focused on refocusing technical vocational teacher education towards green skill acquisition for sustainable development in Nigeria. The paper highlighted the concept of technical vocational teacher education as well as green skills. The paper also viewed the relevance of green skill in Technical vocational teacher education. Challenges facing technical vocational teacher education in achieving sustainable development through green skill acquisition were also discussed. Finally restructuring of technical vocational teacher education to emphasize much on practical skill acquisition, recruiting quality and qualified teaching personnel, constant sponsorship of teaching personnel to attend seminars and workshops to bekept abreastwith new technologies and 21st century learning skillsand adequate funding of technical vocational teacher education program were among the suggestions made as a way forward in refocussing technical vocational teacher education towards green skill acquisition for the sustainable development of Nigeria. |
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