Organising School Agriculture

This book is written for agriculture teachers in primary schools, secondary schools and rural colleges in tropical countries who want to find out how best to plan, organise and develop agriculture in their schools.  Student teachers and lecturers of agriculture at teacher's colleges and training establishments will also find the book invaluable.

Each chapter focuses on the principles of one aspect of school agriculture, concluding with discussion questions on how these principles could be applied in the school. The book includes real life examples and case studies gathered from the authors' experiences.

Key features of Organising School Agriculture

For agriculture teachers:

• helps teachers in all aspects of school agriculture form aims to assessment to programming
• offers practical advice on many areas of school agriculture including livestock, the school garden and record keeping
• takes a discussion and group decision approach to problem solving related to school agriculture
• encourages teachers to seek their own solution to agriculture problems for their school.

For teacher trainers:

• provides a framework for the planning and organising section of an agriculture teacher training course
• takes a modern constructivist approach to learning - it encourages students to think through solutions to planning and organisational problems in agriculture teaching.