EDUCATION AND THE 5TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: PERSPECTIVE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS ON AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE CURRICULUM DESIGN IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The study investigated education and the 5^th industrial revolution: Perspective of secondary school teachers on agricultural science curriculum design in Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey design and answered two research questions with a population of 100 secondary school teachers of agricultural science and sample size of 50 secondary school teachers that was drawn using the disproportionate stratified random sampling technique from Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State. The instrument for data collection was a 17- item questionnaire validated by three experts and it gave a reliability coefficient of 0.70 obtained using Cronbach Alpha method. The data collected were analyzed with mean and standard deviation. The findings showed that there is high level of school-industry partnership and a high level of input teachers perceived should be added to the secondary school curriculum of agricultural science. It was then recommended that agricultural industries in Nigeria should open up their doors for school-industry partnership in various communities for better students productivity, there should be funding of research in contextualized terms for the benefit of the industries in a particular locality and for enhanced agricultural production and productivity in the students, teachers should encourage industries to allow secondary school student use of modern technology so that it would make them better, productive and contributory members of the society upon leaving school etc