A Systematic Review of Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Strategies to Improve Instruction of Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Nigeria

Sulaimon Adewale ORCID iD, Bunmi I .Omodan ORCID iD & Omotayo A. Awodiji ORCID iD

Issue: Vol.3  No.11 October 2022 Post COVID-19 Special Issue  Article 2 pp.19-35
DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2022sp3113 |   Published online 27th October 2022.
© 2022 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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In Nigeria, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused many economies to crumble and claimed lives, has been a drawback to the teaching and learning of technical and vocational education and training (TVET). This paper examined the strategies scholars have identified in the previous studies to reposition and make effective the instruction of technical and vocational education in Nigeria post-COVID-19. A PRISMA protocol was adopted to document the analysis method and inclusion and exclusion criteria. The authors used relevant electronic databases (Google Scholar and Scopus) to search for qualitative and quantitative journal articles published in English between 2020 and 2022 on TVET in Africa. Studies that focused on primary education level were excluded. A three-step synthesis process was used to map the literature to the study objectives. It was found that teaching and learning in TVET in the post-COVID period can be improved by providing professional training programmes for teachers or instructors on relevant skills in a disruptive situation. This paper will guide the educational stakeholders (government, school administrators, teachers, and non-governmental organisations) on the effective strategies for teaching and learning TVET in Nigeria post-COVID-19.

Keywords: TVET, post-COVID-19, Nigeria, Strategies, Teaching and learning

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Dr. Sulaimon Adewale is currently a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Educational Management. His research focuses on Educational Policy Studies, TVET and Gender Studies, Virtual teaching and learning and Educational Management.

Dr. Bunmi Isaiah Omodan is a Senior Lecturer, at Walter Sisulu University, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Education Management and Leadership. His research focuses on Africanised Pedagogy, Decoloniality and Conflict Management.

Dr. Omotayo Adewale Awodiji is currently a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Education Management. His research focuses on Professional Development, Teacher Education, Leading School For 4IR, Leadership, Educational Management, ICT in Education, and Research Methods.

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