Abstract

THE USEFULNESS OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (STEM) AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

Muawiya Haruna Usman

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Education is the key to sustainable National Growth, Development and Productivity globally. This calls for the attention of teachers in all facets of Education due to their vital role of interpreting and implementing the curriculum in order to achieve the pre-determined goals, aims and objectives of education in Nigeria. The study focus on the usefulness of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education for sustainable Development in Nigeria. Four objectives and four research questions were formulated to guide the study. The researcher adopted descriptive research design. The main conclusion is that, improving STEM education in Nigeria is a multi-faceted and complex issue. To this end the need to embrace a range of new innovative teaching approaches is paramount. The major recommendation is that relevant stakeholders ie teachers, students and parents should be consciously encouraged to partner and combine informative and persuasive forces to tackle the challenges of STEM education such as facilities, interest, teaching methods via new innovations for the benefit of the state and Nigeria as a whole in enhancing economic development and the Nigeria government should develop a basic functional, responsive, STEM Education Curriculum which should include our life style, attitude to work, healthy life style, time consciousness, self reliance and self sustenance and Building STEM classrooms with specific focus on local entrepreneurship, good sitting arrangement, teaching materials, quality and enough resource persons among others.

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