Comparative analysis of personal life choices and leadership work styles of unit leaders in Business teacher education in Nigeria in use of social media
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Date
2017
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The School of Graduate Studies, Research & Entrepreneurship [SGSRE] University of Technology, Jamaica
Abstract
Based on a survey submitted to business teacher educators in 5 post-secondary educational
institutions
in
Nigeria,
unit
leaders
are
perceived
as
having
a
capacity
to
lead
their
colleagues
in
their
innovative
efforts
to
enhance
current
instructional
delivery
systems.
In
this
regard,
personal
lifestyle
choices
of
unit
leaders
in
terms
of
using
social
media
and
technology
are
generally
perceived
as
being
assimilated
into
their
work
styles
and
priorities
for
their
programs.
Business
teacher
educators
perceive
their
unit
leaders
as
being
receptive
to
their
ideas,
willing
to
work
with
them
on
innovative
endeavors,
and exhibiting a participatory leadership work style. A discrepancy
between unit leaders’ personal preferences towards aspects of social media and current
awareness of these preferences by business teacher educators themselves may be an
inhibiting factor in advancing social media use in the classroom. is discrepancy
may be evident in other teacher training programs throughout the continent of Africa,
resulting in social media currently being marginally implemented. Addressing this
discrepancy may result in accelerating the integration of social media use in the classroom.