Factors influencing teachers’ use of school gardens in secondary school teaching: a case of central region schools, Malawi
| dc.contributor.author | Mnyanga, Masautso Abraham | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-13T05:34:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-02-13T05:34:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description | Dissertation | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The study was conducted to investigate Factors influencing Teachers’ use of school gardens in teaching in secondary schools in central region of Malawi. Data were collected using a cross-section resesarch design using a self-administered questionnaire, key informant interviews and Focus Group Discussions. Through a census, 64 respondents who comprised teachers from 7 secondary schools were involved in the study. Checklists of questions were used to collect information from Key informants, 7 school administrators, and 7 secondary school students. Data analysis used descriptive statistics with the aid of a Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. Data from key informant interviews and focus group discussion were analysed using thematic analysis. The study findings revealed that the type of subject one taught, attitudes of teachers, size of class, training in garden use, time for practical lessons and availability of resources for garden use were some of the factors that influenced teachers’ use of the school garden for teaching. Availability of resources (inputs) and training, which were significant at 0.001 and 0.05, respectively, were the major factors that influenced teachers’ use of school gardens. Agriculture and Biology were the subjects that most secondary school teachers in the study schools used the gardens for teaching. There is need for provision of proper training to teachers so that they are able to use the gardens properly in teaching. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Principal of Natural Resources College, Malawi | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/4929 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Sokoine University of Agriculture | en_US |
| dc.subject | Teachers | en_US |
| dc.subject | School gardens | en_US |
| dc.subject | Secondary school teaching | en_US |
| dc.subject | Central region | en_US |
| dc.subject | Malawi | en_US |
| dc.title | Factors influencing teachers’ use of school gardens in secondary school teaching: a case of central region schools, Malawi | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |