Abstract
The aim of this research is to find out teachers' perceptions on the significance of entrepreneurship education as a tool for youth empowerment. It also examines it impact in motivating students to be self-reliance, as well as factors affecting the teaching and learning entrepreneurship education in secondary schools. A descriptive survey research was employed and a simple random sampling techniques was used for selecting 100 teachers from all the teachers in both public and private schools in Ijebu Ode, Ogun state. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire designed by the researcher tagged (TPEESSQ), section 1&3 were designed on a 4-points Likert scale while section 2 was designed on a 2-point scale. The reliability coefficient of was obtained using Cronbach alpha which shows the instrument was reliable. The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistic. The result shows that teachers were positive on their view on entrepreneurship education as a tool for youth empowerment and they also believed entrepreneurship education help/motivates students to be self-reliant. The teachers rated poor funding from the government, overcrowded classroom, students’ poor attitude to learning, and inadequate qualified teachers among others as the problems facing the teaching and learning of entrepreneurship education in secondary schools in Ogun state. The hypotheses were tested using Pearson correlation coefficient, which shows that there is a significant relationship between male and female teachers, as well as public and private school teachers on their view on the significance entrepreneurship education as a tool for youth empowerment in secondary schools in Ogun state. Based on the findings the following recommendations were made, that government should increase the funding of entrepreneurship education in our secondary schools, adequate and experience qualified teachers should be recruited to teach entrepreneurship education in our secondary schools, teachers that specialized in the fields.
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