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Effective handling of vocational technology education by all stakeholders paves way for
sustainable development. Building construction which is one of the vocational electives in
Senior Secondary School is poorly taught. It is regrettable to experience that a country crying
for technological breakthroughs and emancipation cannot at this crucial time of technological
age impart practical skills to the recipients of her technology education. Building construction
which is an integral part of vocational technology is worst hit in this imbroglio. It is observed
that the teaching of building construction is too theoretical to the detriment of the
psychomotor aspect of the programme. The difficulties in imparting the practical skills in this
subject is caused by the teachers not possessing adequate skills in the subject, inadequacy of
teaching materials and facilities, curriculum invalidity in terms of teachability and learnability,
poor teaching strategies to mention but a few. This paper, therefore, reappraises the state of
affairs in the teaching of building construction and advances some strategies on how the
subject can move forward.
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