- Title
- Grade 12 learners' perceptions of the effect of urban agriculture on life satisfaction in Duncan Village
- Creator
- Beni, Ntombomzi Octavia
- Subject
- Urban agriculture -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Agricultural education
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MEd
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/17861
- Identifier
- vital:41461
- Description
- The importance of agricultural sciences in the school curriculum all over the world cannot be over-emphasized. It includes an alternative source of fresh produce, improved life satisfaction and a way to preserve cultural identity and traditions. This research study seeks to investigate the perception of Grade 12 learners on the effects of urban agriculture on life satisfaction in Duncan Village. The study adopts a descriptive survey design to elicit information from the respondents on their perceptions on the effects of urban agriculture on life satisfaction. A validated structured questionnaire whose reliability co-efficient is 0.81 was used to collect information. The simple random sampling technique was used to select 78 (seventy-eight) Grade 12 learners. The study reveals among others some components of life satisfaction as a result of urban agriculture. These components are; nutrition, self-employment, food security and poverty eradication and they have positive effects on life satisfaction of the respondents. The study recommends that the South Africa Government should make agriculture education as a compulsory subject for grade 10 and 11 learners in rural areas. This will enable them to develop entrepreneurial skills and self-reliance mentality before they finish their secondary school careers. Similarly, the practical components of this subject should constitute 50percent if not more from the overall marks. Realisation of this idea will alleviate, to some extent burden of unemployment and food scarcity as school leavers will be able to implement right away agricultural skills already acquired.
- Format
- 135 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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