VOCATIONAL EDUCATION A TOOL FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN OGUN STATE (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
The state of poverty has been a problem to many developing countries of the world, as evidence show that through various attempts have been made by these nations to reduce it, the problem appears indefatigably difficult to contain. An attestation to this has been observed in the states situation in which past governments have had cause to introduce certain structural measures to combat this menace.
Vocational Education can be defined even in this state by Olaitan (1978) as that type of education which teaches an individual the basic principles of doing things. It fixes rights habits of doing things in the students through repetitive training in experience from the occupation. Even in the broad sense, vocational education includes the learning of any kind of profitable and useful work.
Robert 1975 defines vocational education as the systematic learning experiences which are designed to fit individual for gainful employment in recognized occupations.
Poverty as seen by the Academic American Encyclopedia (Vol. 12, P. 78) is when one lacks goods and services necessary to maintain an adequate standard of living. Aliyu (2001.P. 14) suggests that relative poverty is a comparative state of deprivation among individuals in a society or group of persons is unable to satisfy their most basic and elementary requirement for human survival in terms of food, clothing, shelter, health, transport, education and recreation. Alleviation according to the Oxford English Dictionary (1979) means to make pain or suffering less or easier to bear. Poverty alleviation therefore suggests making “easier” the pain that comes along with poverty.
The citizens of a state are trained in the field that enables them to acquire specific skills, the individuals are likely to be self-reliant and eradicate poverty as they make use of the skill, the state also stand a better chance for development. Aliyu (2001) also argues that in 1960, the poverty level covered 15 percent on the states population. The rate rose to 28 percent by 1980. Therefore the state of vocational Education in Ogun State and which marries the 2 to reduce the poverty level of the state’s citizenry.
Therefore under vocational Education we have 5 main categories of classes, they are:
- Vocational Agriculture
- Business Education
- Home Economics Education
- Trade and industries Education.
- Technical Education
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VOCATIONAL EDUCATION A TOOL FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN OGUN STATE (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
