REPOSITIONING SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL HOME ECONOMICS CURRICULUM FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

Muhibat Akande Abiola, Hussaina K. Tiamiyu

Abstract


Home economics education contributes substantially to economic empowerment of individual in the society through acquisition of appropriate skills, abilities and competences. The paper focuses on the needs for repositioning the senior secondary school home economics curriculum so as to cater for differences in talents, provide varieties of career opportunities available to students after completing their course of study through intensifying effort on practical aspect. Finally, paper also noted the negligence of pedagogy aspect of home economics education, and entrepreneurship education needed to make school learning self-reliant. The paper therefore recommends among others that a range of value, knowledge, skills and idea should be developed by school administrators by collaborating with local talents within their respective communities to boost creativity and invention.


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