Strategies for Global Reforms in Automobile Technology Education for Sustainable Development

Abstract

Nigeria as a country had advocated for the type of education that would enhance the needed selfreliance and sustainable development for the learners and the society. Automobile technology education programme would help in achieving the much desired self-reliance and sustainable development in Nigeria. This paper examined the conceptual issues of Automobile Technology Teacher Education such as: quality of candidates for automobile technology teachers training programme, training facilities, funding, and quality of lecturers and relevance of automobile technology teacher education curriculum to the needs of the society. The paper made case for strategies for global reforms that will reinvigorate automobile technology teacher education programme towards attaining self-reliance and sustainable development in Nigeria.