Entrepreneurship in Fine and Applied Art Education towards Achieving Sustainable Job Creation in Nigeria: Strategies for its Teaching

Abstract

Countless Nigerian youths within the country are unemployed, yet the problem of joblessness can be effectively tackled through the development of practical skills in Fine and Applied Arts and the entrepreneurial skills to manage it.  What is essential for achieving the national objective of vision 2020 is for teachers to become more proactive especially as it relates to the strategies they adopt for teaching entrepreneurial skills in schools.  It is pertinent for teachers to recognize entrepreneurship as a scientific discipline and employ new teaching strategies which will be able to help students move on with their entrepreneurial intentions or to take up entrepreneurship in Fine and Applied  Arts as a career.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial skills, Fine and Applied Arts, Poverty Eradication