TY  - JOUR
T1  - Integrating Construction Craft Skill Acquisition in the Built Environment
Curriculum Using a Competence Based Education Approach
AU - Adedeji, Afolabi AU - Rapheal, Ojelabi AU - Opeyemi, Oyeyipo AU - Patience, Tunji-Olayeni AU - Lekan, Amusan 
JO  - Research Journal of Applied Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 3
SP  - 295
EP  - 303
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1815-932x
DO  - rjasci.2017.295.303
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjasci.2017.295.303
KW  - Built environment
KW  -competence based education
KW  -construction craft skill
KW  -curriculum
KW  -employment
KW  -population
AB  - The relevance of the study is to enrich the built environment curriculum. The resolve of this study
is to examine construction craft skill acquisition in the built environment using a competence based education
approach. This study was carried out through a detailed literature base and questionnaire survey to elicit data
on construction craft skills acquisition in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions. The targeted population comprised
educationist and students in the faculty of environmental science. The study revealed that the students were
mostly interested in acquiring three major craft skills which include painting, tiling and landscaping craft skills.
Acquiring construction craft skills will increase self-employment, increase business opportunities and increase
employability of the students. In conclusion, major barriers in acquiring construction craft skills in tertiary
institutions are lack of interest from the students and inadequacies in construction curriculum to cover the craft
skills. The study developed a construction craft skill’s acquisition framework for the built environment
curriculum. It was recommended that the government, National University Commission (NUC) and educators
should integrate construction craft skills acquisition programmes in the built environment curriculum. Also, the
National Vocational Qualification Framework (NVQF) policies for training and retraining indigenous artisans
be extended to tertiary institutions to assess and license construction students in specific chosen trained
construction craft skills. It is important to make the craft wage attractive in this quest.
ER  -