Enhancement of Tertiary Institutional Workshop and Practices as a Strategy for Increasing Innovations in Technology Education

Abstract

To Foster innovation substantially in technology education, there is the need to expand tertiary institutional workshops as well as reform the pattern of workshop practices among students in the area. This work therefore describes enhancing of workshop and practices among students as a strategy for increasing innovation in technology education. Using relevant literature, this paper addresses areas such as; conceptual definitions in relations to technology education, workshop practices in Nigeria institutions, present state and challenges of technology education practical workshops in Nigeria, the need for the improvement of technology education workshops and practices, developmental strategies for the improvement of technology education practical workshops and practices. It then concluded that enhancing workshop and practices in tertiary institutions will allow student to put their creative thoughts into actions, create more rooms for teamwork, facilitate good students and lecturers/instructors relationship as the lecturer/instructor will as such be able to understand better the student conception and develop plans on to build on them thereby increasing innovation in technology education as new ideas will find their own ground into practices as well as existence.