My OperaVOCATIONAL TECHNICAL EDUCATION AT THE PRIMARY AND POST PRIMARY LEVEL OF EDUCATION
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The general rule observed in Nigeria educational policies progress report of Northern Nigeria 1952; Review of Educational system in Eastern Nigeria, 1962; The Taiwo committee, 1968; Recommendation of the 1969,... is that all attempts at curriculum development have to start of a more functional processes in terms of the needs of the child and the community i.e. to start by accepting the challenges of competence training at primary school level.
BY
MA'AJI CALEB ZONKWA
PG/00
UNIVEESITY OF NIGERIA
NSUKKA.
INTRODUCTION
The general rule observed in Nigeria educational policies progress report of Northern Nigeria 1952; Review of Educational system in Eastern Nigeria, 1962; The Taiwo committee, 1968; Recommendation of the 1969, National curriculum conference; Nigeria constitution 1978 CHAPTER II, Item 12; National policy on education 1981, the colloquium on black civilization and education, FESTAC 1977) is that all attempts at curriculum development have to start of a more functional processes in terms of the needs of the child and the community i.e. to start by accepting the challenges of competence training at primary school level.
Weighting the present curriculum, and syllabuses of primary school education in the country. It is being observed that, there has not been sufficient consensus, or enough experience to arrive at {a definition of} the concept of Vocational Technical Education. Similarly, concept of competence or at its implementation in practice {of Vocational Technical Education} at post primary has not reach a sufficient consensus by scholars and government {Report on Technical college organization for Nigeria,. 2nd April 1949; Report of the Federal advisory Committee on Technical Education and Industrial Training, 1957; National Policy on Education 1973, 1981 and 1998) colloquium on black civilization and education {1977:109-110}, Nwachukwu {2001:16-17}, Okorie {200128.33}, Okeke {1994:128-129}.
Information from many countries { Amadio 2000} shows a broad definitionof what vocational Technical Education is and their structure. They concentrated the Educational funds for competence and they defined competence and conceiving it as:-
(a) knowing how to do with knowledge and (b) awareness regarding the impact of that doing (Ma 'ail 1984:13-25).
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