Strategies considered effective for the implementation of inclusive education in business education programme in tertiary institutions in Gombe and Bauchi states, Nigeria
Keywords:
strategies, effective, implementation, inclusive education, business educationAbstract
Aims: This study aims at examining student need identification as strategy considered effective for the implementation of inclusive education in Business Education programmes in North-East, Nigeria. Parental engagement as strategy considered effective for the implementation of inclusive education in business education programmes in North-East, Nigeria. Community engagement as strategy considered effective for the implementation of inclusive education in business education programmes in North-East, Nigeria.
Study design: this study adopted the descriptive survey research design.
Place and duration of study: This study was conducted among academic staffs (lecturers) in tertiary institutions in Gombe and Bauchi states, Nigeria.
Methodology: The population for this study comprises of 108 business education lecturers in tertiary institutions offering business education in Gombe and Bauchi States, Nigeria. Due to the manageable size of the population, no sample was drawn hence the entire populations was studied. The instrument for data collection is a structured questionnaire titled “Strategies for Implementation of Inclusive Education in Business Education Programmes (SIIEBEP)”. The instrument for data collection was face and content validated by three experts. The reliability coefficient values of 0.78, 0.85, 0.78 were obtained. Copies of the data collection instrument will be administered personally by the researcher with the help of three research assistants. Descriptive and inferential statistics will be used for data analysis.
Results: The findings of this study revealed that, the grand mean shows a mean value of 3.68 which implies that the respondents consider students’ need identification as a strategy effective for the implementation of inclusive education in business education programmes. Also, there is no significant difference in the mean rating of respondents in federal and state universities on how effective they consider students’ needs identification as a strategy for implementation of inclusive education in business education programmes. Th findings also revealed that the grand mean shows a mean value of 3.82 reveals that the respondents consider parental engagement as a strategy effective for the implementation of inclusive education in business education programmes. Findings relating to the corresponding hypotheses shows that there is no significant difference in the mean rating of respondents in federal and state universities on how effective they consider parental engagement as a strategy for implementation of inclusive education in business education programmes. In the same vein, the grand mean score of 3.02 reveals that the respondents consider community engagement as a strategy moderately effective for the implementation of inclusive education in business education programmes. There is no significant difference in the mean rating of respondents in federal and state universities on how effective they consider community engagement as a strategy for implementation of inclusive education in business education programmes.
Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, it was concluded that students’ need identification, parental engagement were considered effective while community engagement was considered moderately effective strategy for implementation of inclusive education in business education programmes. the study further concluded that no significant difference existed among the respondents rating on how effective they consider students’ needs identification, parental engagement and community engagement for implementation of inclusive education in business education programmes in Bauchi and Gombe states.
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