REALIZATION OF NATIONAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TEACHER TRAINING

Abstract

This paper wishes to determine the relevance of educational enterprise in relation to National Transformation. Teachers are the focal points in making educational system meaningful for national transformation. No education enterprise will be better than the teachers. This paper is of the view that, to reposition technology and vocational education, teacher Training leading to national economic transformation; the curriculum of the teachers should be re-vitalized and the practical content expanded, so that more and reliable knowledge and skills will be acquired by teachers who will subsequently teach the youth. Government policies should
encourage more provision of technology and. vocational education equipment. Students’ Industrial Work
Experience Scheme should be made more functional in raising the interest of technical teachers. Remuneration in approving technology and vocational education teachers to participate in workshop, and conferences will also enhance the quality of the teachers and improve further skill and knowledge acquisition for effective teaching of technology and Vocational Education students at various institutions for national transformation. All these will cause a paradigm shift in Technology and Vocational Education, and reposition it better, especially in this 21st century, where graduates are expected to demonstrate saleable skills in the world of work as dynamic process for national transformation in Nigeria.