A Study of Management Efficiency of Organic Vegetable Garden in an Elementary School of Yunlin County, Taiwan

• Main Authors: Pu Meichun, 蒲玫君
• Other Authors: Peng,Yuan Shing Shing
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01206490497687833956

碩士 === 大葉大學 === 工學院碩士在職專班 === 101 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the current situations of campus organic vegetable gardens of the Yunlin County elementary schools and analyze the effects of variables including different sizes and locations of schools and teachers’ different backgrounds on the campus organic vegetable garden planning, operations, and teaching efficiency. This study selected 115 Directors of General Affairs Division or Directors of Educational Affairs Division and 492 teachers from elementary schools that already had established an organic vegetable garden as the participants of the study. A stratified random sampling was used to select the participants and the effective recovery rate was 85.77%. The research tools including The Yunlin County Elementary School Campus Organic Vegetable Garden Status Questionnaire and The Planning, Operation, and Teaching Efficiency Scale were composed by the researchers and were checked and pre-trialed by experts. For data analysis, the statistical software SPSS 15.0 was used for conducting a descriptive statistics. Statistical methods including an independent sample t test, one-way ANOVA, and the Turkey post hoc comparisons were also used. The comprehensive results of this study were as follows: Organic vegetable gardens of the Yunlin County elementary schools had mostly been established for 1 to 5 years. The motivation for the establishment was mainly to meet the needs of teaching and the main source of funding came from the school’s own financing. The use of organic fertilizers was the main environmental protection concept and most of the gardens were set up mainly for open-air cultivation. More than half of the schools did not use recycled water for irrigation and the teachers and the students were mainly in charge of managing and maintenance. Frequently seen problems included poor vegetable growth, manpower shortage, lack of funds, and difficulties in management and maintenance. The management planning for organic vegetable gardens of the Yunlin County elementary schools had positive effects on planning philosophy, teaching utilization, teaching efficiency, and degree of satisfaction. Teachers of the Yunlin County elementary schools disagreed that not complying with the ecological concept, the lack of maintenance management, inconvenience of watering, difficulties in coordinating with the course teaching, and improper location were reflected on the operation shortcomings of the organic vegetable garden, while some teachers agreed that there were problems, including the lack of sustainable philosophy of recycling the lack of explanation facilities and not favorable to use in teaching, in organic vegetable gardens. Differences in the effects of the management planning for organic vegetable gardens showed: the different school locations and the teachers who were different in gender and the number of service years had significant differences in the organic vegetable garden planning philosophy; the teachers who taught different courses and were different in the number of service years showed significant differences in the teaching utilization of the organic vegetable garden; the teachers who were different in employment position, grade they were teaching, gender, number of service years, and their academic degree showed significant differences in teaching efficiency on the organic vegetable garden; The schools that were different in size showed significant differences in their degree of satisfaction and operation shortcomings of the organic vegetable garden.