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Strategies for Enhancing the Teaching of Crafts Within Home Economics Programmes of Colleges of Education

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Abstract

Crafts being an integral part of Home Economics programmes are geared towards instilling self reliance to the youth, who may on leaving school utilized their knowledge of such c r a f t s t o earn a living . A close study of NCCE minimum standard 1996 shows that crafts is not being thought as a course of its own r a t h e r it is embedded in other Home Economics courses. I n order t realize the objectives of teaching in Colleges of Education, t h e r e is the need t o evolve