The Role of Indigenous Technology and Technology Education in Vision 2020

Abstract

Technology education is a major Educational Policy in Nigeria. Attention is said to have been paid to it by various governments, yet technology education has not yielded the expected dividend. The much emphasized vision 2010 could not hold thus, come another plan to move the country to the position of one of the 20 developed countries of the world, tagged "Vision 2020". As an approach towards using indigenous technology to actualize vision 2020, this paper examines the following: statement of the problem, indigenous technology and vision 2020: A conceptual review of the linkage, indigenous technology and national
transformation, technology education and vision 2020: steps to be taken in achieving the goals/objectives of technology education in Nigeria.