Appropriate Entrepreneurship Education: A Tool for Women Entreprenuers in Southeast Region of Nigeria

Abstract

The paper was determined on Appropriate Entrepreneurship Education: A tool for women entrepreneurs for the development of Southeast Region of Nigeria. The study adopted a survey research design. The population consisted of 1.2 million comprising of women entrepreneurs. Proportionate stratified random sampling was used in determining the sample size, where the elements were drawn randomly from each stratum in such a way that the relative parent proportions of the strata in the resultant sample were the same as in the parent’s population. Therefore the sample size of 1,200 was determined by sampling women from each of the different state in Nigeria. 33 items Questionnaire was used for data collection. Data collected were analyzed using frequency, and mean. The findings include appropriate entrepreneurship education objective for women entrepreneurship in southeast Nigeria and content of entrepreneurship education as a tool for women entrepreneurship in the southeast Nigeria. Recommendations on appropriate entrepreneurship education objectives and content as a tool for women entrepreneurship in Nigeria were made based on the research findings.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n6p185