DEVELOPING ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS AMONG PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS THROUGH LEARNING OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The study investigated developing of entrepreneurial skills among pre-service teachers through teaching of mathematics education for sustainable development. Based on the purpose of the study, one research question and two hypotheses guided the study. Analytical survey research design was adopted in carrying out the study. The population consisted of all pre-service teachers in the department of primary education studies of Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education Owerri in Imo State. A sample of 90pre-service teachers was used for the study using simple random sampling technique in selecting the sample size. The instrument used for data collection was structured questionnaire titled developing entrepreneurship skills through mathematics education (DESME). The validity of the instrument was done by two experts in mathematics education and two experts in entrepreneurial education. The internal consistency of the items was established to be 0.87 using Cronbach Alpha Statistics Method. The data generated were analyzed with the aid of SPSS Version 20.0 .Descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research question while inferential statistics of Z-test, ANOVA were used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance .The result of the study showed that knowledge of mathematics is very important in the development of entrepreneurial skills while gender and levels of years of pre-service teachers do not differ in the acquisition of the entrepreneurial skills.