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The Vocational Agriculture Program at the Lower Secondary Schools in Thailand
Dissertation Abstract:
The study was conducted to determine: (a) the relationship between the vocational agriculture program and the country’s developmental needs; (b) the opinions of various respondent groups on certain aspects of the program; and (c) the perceptions of teachers, parents and graduates on the educational philosophy, objectives and activities of the program.
The study involved 12 government lower secondary schools with vocational agriculture program and 51 teachers, 66 vocational agriculture graduates, and 156 parents as respondents. Data were gathered through personal interviews using an evaluation instrument. Central tendency, chi-square test and Spearman’s rank-order correlation coefficient were used in data analysis.
Findings indicate that all three groups of respondents agreed that the vo-ag program met the educational needs of the community, hence it should be continued and improved. They also believed that “learning to farm by farming” is the key to successful supervised farming program.
Teachers and graduates pointed to the planning part as the weakest aspect of the program. Variations in teachers’ opinions about the program were influenced by their teaching experience, educational attainment and training background, but not by their age.
Vo-ag graduates and those with nonfarming parents tended to rate the vo-ag program higher than the teachers and graduates with farming parents.
Teachers and parents differed in their philosophical concepts of the program, while the graduates disagree with their parents and teachers on subject-matter content.