Teaching Instructional Contents for Woodwork Technology Courses in NCE Awarding Institution’s of Northwest, Nigeria

Abstract

Woodwork Technology at Nigeria certificate in education Technical programme comprises three trade courses, Furniture making, Joinery and Carpentry. The Curriculum content doesn’t outline any portion of carpentry work, and it is a prerequisite in training Woodwork Technical teacher at the junior level. This paper examined the content of the curriculum, identified the missing gap of the carpentry aspects that are missing and developed an instructional manual. Relevant related literature to the content of woodwork technology curriculum were reviewed. An objective with corresponding Research Questions and a null hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. Research and Development was used as the design for the study. The study was carried out in NCE Technical Awarding Institution in Northeastern Nigeria. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire. The Cronbach Alpha coefficient method was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument. The findings reveals that the existing instructional content in the NCE awarding institutions curriculum torches only furniture and very little part of joinery and devoid of carpentry. These findings led to the development of the instructional contents areas that is accompanied by instructional manual for teaching the missing content in the existing curriculum. Hence, there is necessity to bring into the curriculum the basic part of carpentry work, so as to produce skilled manpower who are ready for any woodworking industrial challenges