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Design Education and the Nigerian Economy

Asian Journal of Business and Management

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Field Value
 
Title Design Education and the Nigerian Economy
 
Creator Ogunduyile, Sunday Roberts
Emidun, Olugbenga B.
 
Subject Industrial design Education
cultural heritage
design policy
Nigerian economy.
 
Description A look at the history of Nigeria reflects that in all spheres of life, nature has provided for the country to be a high performing economic success. Nigeria, the largest in Africa, is rich in human, cultural and natural resources. Nigeria could be described as the Greece of Africa. The influence of Nigerian arts, crafts and design have been felt strongly in other parts of the world. It is lamentable that while most emerging economies are harnessing design education for development and improving quality of lives of their citizenry, the Nigerian political climate has not enabled the formulation of strategic policies that can boost industrial climate of the economy. This has not provided the support and appropriate infrastructure for indigenous design education and development capabilities.  The paper takes a look at the current political policies of Nigeria, its economic reality in the absence of formidable design groups and design policy that can enhance indigenous technical knowhow. The paper also examines the value oriented benefits inherent in design education as experienced in developed economies and how it can be channeled to make its contributions to grow the Nigerian economy. 
 
Publisher Asian Online Journals
 
Date 2014-01-04
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://ajouronline.com/index.php/AJBM/article/view/313
 
Source Asian Journal of Business and Management; Vol. 1 No. 5 (2013): December 2013
2321-2802
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://ajouronline.com/index.php/AJBM/article/view/313/423