Revaluing Vocational and Technical Education in the National Policy on Education in Nigeria: Strategies and Prospects
Vocational and technical education is not strange to you in meaning and context but it is still very strange to many in our country as you will observe later in this paper. My effort here is to speak about vocational and technical education or give the simplest meaning to the understanding of nonprofessionals. Therefore, vocational and technical education in the simplest form means various skill jobs which individuals could embark upon based on ability, interest and exposure to a complimentary or relevant pedagogy for possible inquiry and development in future due to innovations. Simply put, the term, vocational and technical education could be illustrated as follows: Vocation means relevant jobs or occupations like agriculture, home economic, technology and business occupations in addition to relevant pedagogy such as educational psychology, methodology of instruction, measurement and evaluation, guidance and counseling, work experience in the industry or schools among others. A combination of any occupation in vocation and pedagogy leads to a well trained individual in vocational or technical education.
