IDENTIFICATION OF PHYSICS CONTENTS THAT CAN PROMOTE ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY PHYSICS STUDENTS
One of the major crises facing Nigeria today is the high rate of unemployment and drop out of its youths from secondary schools. This has been found to be one of the reasons for the current high rate of extreme poverty and hunger in the society. Entrepreneurial Education is the process of providing individuals with concepts and skills to recognize opportunities that others have overlooked and to have the insight, self-esteem and knowledge to act where others have hesitated. Entrepreneurial Education helps to develop in youths, the entrepreneurial spirit to make many drop outs of school youths who are jobless roaming the streets to embark on their own self-employment. In this paper, the contents of the Senior Secondary School Physics curriculum which promote the acquisition of entrepreneurial skills were identified. Also the different approaches that should be used in teaching Physics to promote the inculcation of these skills were also identified. A total of forty Physics teachers were drawn from thirty out of sixty-five government owned secondary schools and also ten industrialists in Nnewi Education Zone. The instrument was self-structured questionnaire. The results were presented on tables. Two research questions and one hypothesis were stated. Mean and standard deviation were used in answering the research questions while t-test statistics was employed in testing the sole hypothesis. The findings revealed that thirty-one out of forty-eight major topics in the Senior Secondary School Physics curriculum promote the acquisition of entrepreneurial skills. Also the use of such approaches like field trip/excursion, laboratory work, inquiry, discovery approach, concept mapping and practical activities in teaching the contents will highly promote the inculcation of entrepreneurial skill among the Physics students. However, there is no significant difference between scores from Physics teachers and industrialists in the contents that can promote entrepreneurial skills by the Physics students
Keywords: contents, entrepreneurial, identification, physics, promote, secondary, senior, skills, students