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Kwara State University

Oluremi Awogbade

Designation: Associate Professor
Department: CREATIVE ARTS AND TOURISM
My Publications
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Relevance of Art and Entrepreneurship Education

This paper explores the relevance of art and entrepreneurship education\training with the aim of challenging the content of their programs. This study is hinged on the theory of economic development and the theory of instrumentalism. The study employs qualitative approach to describe the relevance of art and entrepreneurship education. However, the study utilized review of extensive literatures in the field of art and entrepreneurship education. The literatures and discussions are intended to provide a merge in the programs and seek to address the relevance of the two on integrated disciplines. This is aimed at programs that would arm the multitude of youth with job skills that would initiate the imperative campaign on relating art practice, art skills and entrepreneurship as tool for combating idleness among them. Both disciplines are discovered to have similar characteristics and both manifest creativity, the most essential of human trait. The difference in the two is that artists have in addition to creative mind, keen eyes, and corporal intuitive to turn materials to real objects while the entrepreneurs have great creative business ideas. Combining the two disciplines will make a good result to creating wealth. Key Words: Art, Entrepreneurship, Discipline, Education, Youth
Total Publications : 26