Mbaegbu Roseline Ebere V, Owerri Ugochukwu Ndidi
This study examined the extent of utilization of business game learning Approach for Development of Entrepreneurship Mindset among Business Education Students in Colleges of Education in South-East of Nigeria. Five Descriptive survey research design was adopted and the population was three hundred and ninety six (396) Business Education students drawn from five colleges of education in South-East zone and the sample for the` study was two hundred and thirty seven (237), comprising of 200 and 300 levels students in 2018/2019 academic session. The instrument for data collection was a well structured questionnaire. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha Approach and the coefficient of 0.97. The 237 copies of the instrument administered were collected and 23 copies were not properly filed so, only 214 copies were valid. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while t-test statistics was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the study showed that the Business Education students in colleges of education in South East rated business game learning approaches as useful learning approaches for the development of entrepreneurial mindset among students. These learning approaches help students to develop positive relationship and spirit of team work provide them opportunities outside classroom environment, expose students to previous experiences, stimulate conceptual thinking in students and make them to be proactive and have creative understanding. Based on the findings, the researcher recommended among others that the college management and lecturers in business/entrepreneurship education should endeavour to objectively use those assessed learning approaches and also other innovative approaches not mentioned in this study and since these learning approaches require enough time for practical, facilities should be provided and lecture periods should be re-adjusted to have more practical/demonstration hours.