Economic maladies in African countries: A discourse on vocational and technical education curriculum in Nigeria for development
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Economy is widely acknowledged as a powerful instrument of social change and development. This fact holds for all societies to the extent that their economic sector is never left to chances in policy terms. However, the reality in African countries, is that despite several initiatives to face-lift their economic sector, economic crunch remains a cankerworm hindering optimum development. This informed the paper to examine economic maladies in African countries with respect to vocational and technical education curriculum touch points and operational logistics in Nigerian perspectives for development. Economic issue is presented as a perennial problem of developing countries which must not be left to fallow. In this respect, as a way forward, the touch points examined in Nigerian context include value crises in Nigerian education and the assault on vocational and technical education (VTE) curricular practices; the status of VTE in the training institutions and the matters arising in the curriculum of VTE programmes in theory and practice. In order to address economic maladies in Nigeria out of which the rest African countries would learn lessons for unique development, twenty-one operational logistics along with the expected outcomes are put forward for Nigerian as a country amidst economic maladies. The paper concluded that the utilitarian values of vocational and technical education curriculum would make impacts on production, economic generation and development with timely consideration of the operational logistics enunciated
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