Repositioning Science Teacher Education Through Practical Oriented Application in the Teaching and Learning Process for Global Competitiveness: University Undergraduate’s View

Abstract

The dynamism in educational development today had change holistically so people in charge too need to be proactive to meet the global challenges that can compete with the global world and to meet the global competitiveness if not our educational system will not be in line with the word educational system. This prompts the researchers to look at repositioning teaching and learning process by laying emphases on practical. Forty (40) respondents were used as the pilot study that comprises of six (6) science education lecturer and thirty-four post graduate student of the same department. Sixty-three undergraduate students were randomly selected as the sample population of the study from science education department. A structure questionnaire was design that consist of ten items for data collection using Linkert scale and the result was analyses using frequency counting, mean and standard deviation and t-test at P>0.05. From the result it was observed that repositioning teaching and learning process using practical process is inevitable and that the teacher should ready to adopt practical as one of the cardinal points to teach some of the recommendation proffer includes giving awareness to the need for repositioning teaching and learning of science through practical oriented process and prompt adequate financing of the practical for better understanding of scientific phenomenon.