DEVELOPMENT OF BASIC SKILLS IN THE NIGERIAN CHILD THROUGH TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: CONSTRAINTS AND PROSPECTS

UNIGWE SIXTUS C, PhD
Publisher: JOTERD {"id":1,"volume_name":"Vol 3 Number 1","created_at":null,"updated_at":null,"url":"volumes\/3.jpg"} (1): 1: doi: 1 Published in 2017

Technology education offers an Individual the opportunity of acquiring practical and applied skills as well as basic scientific knowledge. Its curriculum is designed In a way that It can prepare the learner towards self· reliance In the areas of science and technology. Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme was tailored towards realizing this objective by developing in the child basic skills that can enable him be self-reliant after graduating at Junior Secondary School level. The researcher in his attempt to demonstrate this showed among other things, the modalities and scope of emphasis for basic skill development in the child. He looked at the constraints and prospects of developing basic skills In the child through technology education and recommended among other things for the provision of adequate number of equipment and trained teachers to ensure effective development of requisite basic skills In the Nigerian Child.

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