ACCEPTABILITY OF CULTURAL AND SOCIAL COHESIVENESS AS A BEST PRACTICE TOOL IN TVET DELIVERY FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Teaching and learning for adequate service delivery of graduates to the society has created major concern to researchers and government across the world. However, there are reports of low employment rate of graduates in the developing nations, probably because of insufficient skill acquisition though Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) caused by inadequate cultural and social cohesiveness among individuals in TVET programme. This paper presents the assessment of the acceptability of cultural and social cohesiveness as a best practice tool in TVET delivery for national development. A structured questionnaire developed by the researchers in line with the formulated research questions guided the study. Research information was gotten from the questionnaire survey that seeks the opinion of 100 respondents. The respondents were all the teachers of technology and vocational subjects in Ebonyi State. The statistical mean, standard deviation, t-test, correlation and regression analysis were used to analyse the data. The findings revealed that ensuring respect at all levels and making roles clear and explicit are proved ways of minimising management hierarchy to ensure cultural and social cohesiveness in TVET organization for effective TVET delivery. Giving others surprising phone calls and accommodating one another are ways of caring for one another towards cultural and social cohesiveness in TVET organization. Acting immediately to give feedback to any action or reaction observed and asking anonymous quantitative questions are ways of use of feedback approach to guarantee cultural and social cohesiveness in TVET organization for effective TVET delivery. It is recommended that further research be conducted on the development of cultural and social cohesiveness based best practice framework in TVET delivery for national development in Nigeria.