ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN TEACHER EDUCATION: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
Abstract Entrepreneurship education is generally defined as individuals’ ability to use opportunities and to turn ideas into actions; ability to plan and manage projects in order to achieve objectives; and be creative, innovative and ready to face risks. It is believed that as engines of the economy, entrepreneurship education plays a critical role in shaping attitudes, skills and culture. Widespread exposure of students to entrepreneurship will make it more likely that they become entrepreneurs in the futures. Innovative strategies need to be developed that cater specifically for the entrepreneurship educational needs of students. The teacher education institutions need to provide practical training in entrepreneurship to their students, to make them more aware of the benefits of entrepreneurship and to address the factors that impact on developing entrepreneurial education. This paper takes a look at the concept of entrepreneurship, and teacher education. It explains the need to integrate entrepreneurship education in the curriculum of teacher education. The paper equally discusses some of the challenges facing entrepreneurship in teacher education such as poor funding, inadequate facilities etc and therefore recommends among others adequate funding, provision of adequate facilities//equipment, and that our prospective school teachers should not only given the opportunity to learn the skills of using technology, but also to learn how to design innovative instructions through an integration of ICT with curriculum.