Constraints facing community secondary schools in incorporating agricultural science subject in their schools: the case of Songea Municipality, Tanzania.
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2012
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
Abstract
The aim of this study was to find out constraints facing community owned secondary
schools in Tanzania in incorporating agricultural science as one of the subjects taught in
their schools, with specific reference to Songea Municipality. The study specifically
identified the constraints facing the community owned secondary schools in incorporating
agricultural science as one of the subject taught and assessed whether or not secondary
school students were in need of studying agricultural science subject. Also it examined the
views of secondary school students not studying agricultural science subject as well as
assess if the Tanzanian education policy favored secondaiy school students to study
agricultural science subject or not. It also assessed whether there were self-reliance
activities carried out in schools such as animal husbandry, crop cultivation and school
projects. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey method whereby students and
teachers from randomly selected community secondaiy schools were selected and
involved in the study. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentages were used
to summarize the information obtained from the respondents. The identified constraints
include improper Tanzanian education policy concerning teaching agriculture science
subject, lack of teaching and learning materials, inadequate school physical facilities,
unavailability of qualified agriculture teachers and also financial problems in schools. The
study further found out that students viewed agriculture science subject to be an important
subject to them because of its immediate use of the knowledge and skills obtained through
studying the subject. Moreover, the study found that there was no self reliance activities
carried out in community secondaiy schools. Thus, the study concluded that, there is need
to incorporate agricultural science subject in the community secondary schools since the
informants were supportive of it, in spite of the constraints associated with incorporating
the subject in these schools.
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Constraints, Agricultural Science Subject, Community secondary schools, Incorporating agricultural science subject, Songea Municipality