Knowledge and Perception of Ogun State’s Sda Youths on Apprenticeship Model for Training Entrepreneurs
Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: Unemployment amongst employable youths in Nigeria is at an alarming rate. This has led so many youths to different vices like internet fraud/scam, ritual killings, armed robbery, prostitution, kidnapping, child trafficking and several others. To this end, many government dispensations in Nigeria introduced various programmes aimed at solving the problem of unemployment in the country. This study sought to determine if exposure to entrepreneurship training over a period of four weeks would positively influence the knowledge, perception and attitudinal disposition of youths in selected districts to entrepreneurship as a way of reducing unemployment in Nigeria. This research work employed the quasi-experimental method. Forty-four youths from the three purposively selected districts (Ilishan-West, Ilishan-North and Babcock University) in Ilishan-Remo formed the experimental group while Ijebu-Ode district was selected for control group. The experiment lasted for four weeks. The respondents were trained in the production of three items – multi-purpose liquid detergent, disinfectant and liquid air freshener. The same self-structured questionnaire was administered to the respondents at the baseline and endline of the study. Quantitative and qualitative data revealed respondents’ understanding of the problem of unemployment in Nigeria. Endline data showed statistically significant difference in the participants’ knowledge, perception and attitudinal disposition to entrepreneurship as against baseline data across all the tested variables. There was however no statistically significant difference in the demographic variables of gender and income and the knowledge, perception and attitudinal disposition of the respondents to entrepreneurship. The study therefore concludes that apprenticeship model is effective in training youths in becoming entrepreneurs.
Institutions: Adventist University of Africa, Babcock University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7216798517