ABSTRACT
The main of the study was to determine the management competencies needs of Automechanics teachers in the South East States of Nigeria. The study was made of three specific purposes, research questions and hypotheses respectively.
The study was carried out in five states using a research design with a population of 51 . A structured questionnaire was used for data collection.
This instrument was validated by three experts from the Department of Vocational Teacher Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The reliability coefficient of the entire instrument was 0.72. Three research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation.
Three null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance using the t-test statistic. The findings of the study revealed that there were 16 workshop management competency improvement needs possessed by automechanics teachers,
38 competency improvement needs needed by automechanics teachers and four strategies to be employed to improve workshop management competency Needs of automechanics teachers.
INTRODUCTION
Automechanics is a technical subject taught as part of introductory technology in junior secondary schools and as a vocational subject in senior secondary schools and technical colleges.
Automechanics curriculum in technical colleges was designed to train and produce craftsmen who are proficiently skillful in the maintenance of all types of motor vehicles (NBTE, 1985).
The students after graduation are expected to be self-employed and to employ others, or secure employment as automotive industrial workers, or pursue further education in advance craft/technical programmes (FRN, 2004).
The introduction of Automechanics into the curriculum of technical colleges brought along with it, the building of school occupational laboratory called workshop, where a learner may experiment, test, construct, disassemble, repair, design, create, imagine, and study (Ezeji, 2004).
Workshops are designed to provide meaningful in-school practical experience to students. It is a room or building in which things are made or repaired using tools or machinery.
Workshop is 13 defined as a building where machines, materials and tools are installed mainly for practical purpose (Anaemena, 2001).
Automechanics is skill oriented and requires the use of the workshop for the provision of a learning situation in which the learner could experiment, study, imagine, create, test, construct, design, dismantle, repair and build equipment (Ezeji,2004).
Consequently, Automechanics is heavily dependent on workshop activities. The workshops contain expensive facilities and equipment which should not be handed over to people who lack the capabilities for the management of the workshops.
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