Abstract
Nigeria is facing a contradictory crisis where growing graduate unemployment coincides with an entrepreneurship education curriculum mandated in all tertiary institutions. The study suggested that the missing link in entrepreneurship education is not the information, but rather the students’ psychological and emotional unpreparedness. Drawing on recent empirical evidence and theoretical insights from counselling psychology, this paper maintained that guidance and counselling techniques, particularly personal and social counselling, career guidance, and solution-focused coaching, provides a pedagogical link between entrepreneurial knowledge and entrepreneurial action. The study made specific curriculum revision proposals, such as the inclusion of counselling-led experiential modules, counsellor training in entrepreneurial psychology, and the construction of schoolbased entrepreneurship clinics. It concluded that without incorporating guidance and counselling. into the implementation architecture of entrepreneurship education curriculum, Nigeria risks sustaining a curriculum that would inform students on entrepreneurship rather than transform them into entrepreneurs to drive the economy.
Keywords: Guidance and counselling, entrepreneurship education, youth unemployment, curriculum review, Nigerian tertiary institutions, entrepreneurial acumen.
Author Name(s):
Isaac Nyaudo Inuaeyen
Department of Guidance and Counselling
Faculty of Education
University of Uyo, Uyo
Victor Uwem Akpabio
Department of Curriculum and Teaching
Federal College of Education,
Ididep, Akwa Ibom State