Functional Integrated Science Education as a Tool for Wealth Creation Economic Diversification

ABSTRACT

This paper looked at functional integrated science education as a tool for wealth creation and economic diversification. It clarifies the concept of functional education, integrated science education, wealth creation and economic diversification. It examined how functional science education could be used to create wealth and economic diversification by applying some innovative strategies and some of the challenges retarding the achievement of functional integrated science education in Nigerian schools. The paper concludes that Functional integrated Science Education has the potential of equipping individuals with life coping skills for  self – reliance, Integrated Science curriculum should be made to be functional in terms of teaching resources, enough teachers in quantity and quality who are well motivated and good learning environment. The paper recommended that; regular workshops, seminars and conferences should be organized for teachers of Integrated Science to build their capacities for Integrating entrepreneurial skills in their teachings, there is the need for the country to have more emphasis on practical aspects of the subject so that studies in Integrated science may become more functional to individual as well as benefiting to the larger society among others.

Keywords: Functional education, integrated science, wealth creation and Economic diversification