The paper presents findings of empirical investigation into the challenges of deploying project method of teaching agricultural among agricultural science students of Awe Senior High School in the Navrongo Municipality of the Upper East Region of Ghana. Action Research methodology was employed in which students were assigned a project of raising tomatoes seedlings. Through simple random sampling, 100 students were sampled and randomly assigned a project of raising tomato seedlings in a group of five or individually. Observations, personal interviews, focus group discussion and key informant interviews were employed in gathering data for the study. Discourse analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics were employed in analysing the data gathered. Kendell’s coefficient of concordance was applied in analysing level of agreement among students’ ranks of constraints in undertaking agricultural projects. The constraints/challenges to undertaking project method of teaching were identified as inadequate tools/equipment, large class size and grouping problem, short periods allocated to practical, poor skilled farm labourer, difficult and time consuming and high cost of materials, in decreasing order of severity. It is recommended that the school authority and Ghana Education Service (GES) should endeavour to provide adequate teaching and learning materials to schools to ensure effective application of project method of teaching for effective teaching and learning of agricultural practical.

Challenges of Teaching and Learning of Agricultural Practical Skills: The case of Deploying Project Method of Teaching among Students of Awe Senior High School in the Upper East Region, Ghana

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