PERSPECTIVES OF BIOLOGY IN ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN RIVERS STATE

Gideon Wokocha

Department of integrated Science

Ignatius Aguru University of Education, Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt

ABSTRACT:

The research examined biology perspective to entrepreneurial education for sustainable development in Rivers State. The study employed a descriptive survey with three research questions which guided its conduct. Questionnaire was the instrument used to captured data and all the twenty five (25) biology teachers in nineteen (19) senior Secondary schools in Gokana and Eleme Local Government Areas of Rivers State were used as sample size. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation at 2.50 criterion value. The statistical results obtained reveals that the application of discovery, inquiry, demonstration and project techniques can effectively enhanced the transmission of entrepreneurial skills in senior secondary schools. Also, the research identified the non-inclusion of entrepreneurship education on the school time table, the apathy biology teachers displayed toward entrepreneurial practice and the inability of biology teachers to transmit entrepreneurial skills due to lack of competence considered to be the major challenges biology teachers faced in transmitting entrepreneurial skills to secondary school students. And to solve these problems, the study identified the need to re-design biology curriculum and the need to train biology teachers to acquire requisite skills. The research also postulated that a learner should be able to showcase a micro-bio entrepreneurial venture before graduating from secondary schools.