Analysis of Entrepreneurship Pedagogy and Students' Mindset towards Self Employment in Nigeria

Abstract

The support from higher institutions to facilitate entrepreneurship development courses is at an alarmingrate at all levels. Despite this support, the rate of unemployment among university graduates continues toincrease daily. The study examined how entrepreneurial curricula in selected universities in Kwara Stateinfluence students' mindset on entrepreneurship. The study adopted a thematic analysis based on datacollected from the in-depth interviews obtained from nine students across the selected universities inKwara State. They concluded that students were engaged in industrial attachments, vocational skills,workshops, and group projects that greatly influenced students' mindsets toward entrepreneurialbehaviours through skills acquisition and team building. The findings also revealed that the study hasimplications on strategy development for entrepreneurship development curricula of universities in KwaraState and students' goals. Therefore, it is recommended that the students' entrepreneurial mindset shouldbe enhanced through career team building; the schools should encourage undergraduates to attendworkshops, acquire vocational skills and also encourage the students on holiday jobs.