Promoting Sustainability Development: The Role of Business Studies Teachers' in Public Upper Basic School in Oyo State
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2023
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Lead City University Ibadan
Abstract
This paper focused on promoting sustainability development: the role of business studies teachers in
public upper basic schools. It examined the concept of business studies as a subject and the teachers' for
promoting sustainability in public upper basic schools. Business studies is an academic subject that
exposes students to business knowledge and practices and it's also a subject that's been taught in the
upper basic schools and geared towards imparting in students the necessary business skills, attitudes
and knowledge required to survive and succeed in the world of business. However, despite the wide
applicability and importance of Business studies, many students seem not to be finding their feet in the
subject and world of work after graduation, that's why this study seeks to determine the strategies that
the business studies teachers' will inculcate in promoting sustainability development. The study adopts
the descriptive survey design. One research question and One hypothesis tested at 0.05 level of
significance. Population of the study consists of 1,269 business studies teachers, while sample
consisted of 109 business studies teachers selected from 11 selected local government were randomly
selected across all the three senatorial districts. A validated questionnaire containing 29 items with
reliability coefficient of 0.05 level of significance. Findings reveals that instructional facilities such as
visual aids and typing pool used by the teacher in teaching of business studies in Oyo state are rarely
available while audio- visual aids are not available for the teaching of business studies in upper basic
schools in Oyo state. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that government and
other educational stakeholders should ensure that the public upper basic schools should be equipped
with the right instructional facilities such as the typing pool, visual and audio- visual aid for effective
teaching of business studies as they can stimulate learning and help the students to have practical
knowledge of the subject which will help in promoting sustainability development in the nation.
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Business studies, teachers', instructional facilities, sustainability, upper basic