Counselling as an Antidote for a Successful Entrepreneurship Education among Teachers of Oro College of Education, Kwara State

Abstract

This paper investigated the relevance of counseling as an antidote for a successful entrepreneurship education among teachers of Ora College of Education in Kwara state. It also focused on whether or not there is zeal in teachers thinking pattern in exploring business opportunity, the problems affecting the successful inculcating of entrepreneurship education in the college and the way forward in promoting the success of such education. The data for the study was drawn from a case study of one colleges of education in Kwara state. To achieve the purpose of this study, /"our research questions were raised. The study adopted a survey research design. The questionnaire was developed and used by the researcher for data collection. The analyses were based on the four research questions using mean scores. Major findings of the study indicated that there is a lot of zeal in teachers thinking pattern in exploring business opportunities. The study further revealed that lack of funds to conduct research and innovative approaches to carrying out new process, lack of tools and machinery to aid institutions implement entrepreneurship programs among others, were the problems aflecting the successful lflC'I-llL‘ttll0Vl of entrepreneurship education. Based on the findings, some recommendations were made. They include a review of educational curricula that will require all new students to become involved in the entrepreneurship process. It was concluded that teachers generally need backups for successful entrepreneurship education. To this effect, the federal government should make available fiinds to encourage counseling psychologists to effectively play their role in Nigerian colleges of education.