Influence of school vegetable gardens on the students and teachers of Thiruvananthapuram district: (Record no. 157827)
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| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 630.71 |
| Item number | DIL/IN |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dilip S |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Influence of school vegetable gardens on the students and teachers of Thiruvananthapuram district: |
| Remainder of title | an expository analysis |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Vellayani |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Department of Agricultural extension, College of Agriculture |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2017 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 125 |
| 502 ## - DISSERTATION NOTE | |
| Dissertation note | MSc |
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| Abstract | The study entitled ‘influence of school vegetable gardens on the students and teachers of Thiruvananthapuram district: An expository analysis’ was conducted in Thiruvananthapuram district that involved 130 respondents with 10 students and three teachers each from 10 schools involved in school vegetable garden programme during the period, 2015-2017. The study was done to determine the influence of vegetable gardens in terms of attitudes, to assess the level of knowledge on vegetable gardening, delineating the benefits, training needs, constraints and strategies as perceived by the school students and teachers. Four variables were purposively selected along with thirteen independent variables through judges rating and included in the study. The attitude of school students and teachers towards gardening and garden activities was selected as the dependent variable. On analysis of data, it was found that majority of students involved in school gardening activities belonged to 14 and 15 age group and were studying in 7th and 8th standard. In case of teachers, majority (56.77%) of them belonged to above mean age (44 years) group and all the teachers’ possessed B.Ed. or M.Ed. degrees. It was heartening to notice that 40 per cent of teachers had agriculture has their secondary occupation however 53.33 per cent teachers did not have any secondary occupation indicating the need for extension service to reach schools for educating teachers to engage themselves in agriculture at home focusing on food and nutritional security and also for generating additional income through sale of surplus. Most of the students dwelling place belonged to rural area where as teachers come from urban area and the distance from home to school was less than 3 km for students and more than 6 km for teachers. In case of variables, viz., social orientation, social participation, attitude, factors of influence, mass media exposure and knowledge, the majority of the respondents belonged to medium category. Newspaper was their main source of information with rank one, followed by television for both teachers and students. The mean score for variables like level of volunteering, level of excitement and attitude of teachers was higher than that of students indicating the mentoring role played by the teachers for managing and maintaining the school vegetable gardening. With respect to political orientation, the students were politically sensitive to issues and 60 per cent teachers making it clear that they were not actively involved in politics but do participate in programmes like ‘environment protection campaign’ and ‘food security programmes’. The variables namely, dwelling place, political orientation, personal and social factor, technological factors, mass media exposure and training needs were positive and significantly correlating with attitude at 5% significance and benefits at 1% significance. However, students attitude was influenced by age at 1% significance and class of study, purpose of involvement and training needs (-ve) at 5% significance. Both teachers and students reported the need for more training and 80-90 per cent fell in the category of high training needs. The average school vegetable garden area was 18.5 cents and seven out of 10 schools were maintaining vegetable garden in an area of more than or equal to 20 cents. Majority of the school maintained mixed cropped vegetable garden (80.0%) and 7 out of 10 schools did possess protective fencing. Seventy per cent of the schools were irrigating their vegetable gardens daily and 80.0 per cent of the schools used well water for irrigation. 60.0 per cent of the schools had financial support from government and 40.0 per cent of the schools from school management or PTA funds. 14 different vegetables were grown in school vegetable gardens and the most dominant was okra (100.0%), amaranthus (60.0%), tomato (50.0%), cowpea (50.0%) and cucumber (40%). The top three constraints as perceived by students and teachers were ‘the high input cost, lack of voluntary participation of student’s, lack of garden maintenance during holidays and vacation. Important strategies to be adopted for sustenance of school vegetable gardening as perceived by students and teachers were, availing good quality inputs at required time and amount, alternative arrangements for garden maintenances in summer vacations, and making agriculture as a compulsory subject from upper primary level to high school. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Agricultural Extension |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Allan Thomas (Guide) |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810138120 |
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| Not For Loan | Reference Book | KAU Central Library, Thrissur | KAU Central Library, Thrissur | Theses | 2017-12-04 | 630.71 DIL/IN | 173991 | 2017-12-04 | Theses |