 Social Determinants of Rural Secondary School Students’ Choice of Agricultural Career and its Implication for Counseling Services: A Case of Delta State, NigeriaEgbule Elizabeta Osita () Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, 2020, vol. 10, issue 1, 515-527 Abstract: This study unveils the factors that influence rural secondary school students to choose agriculture as a career or course of study. Many of the students chose a career in medicine and engineering before agriculture. Most (57.89%) had no counseling experience with a Guidance Counselor, but 81.14% were engaged in agricultural child labour. 83.77% were exposed to agriculture programmes on audio-visual media and visit to commercial farms. The few (10.09%) chose agriculture as an opportunity for self-employment, interest, profitable and easy nature of agriculture as a course of study and parents' preference, among others. The social attributes of the students such as age, parents education & occupation, wealth status of parents, sex, knowledge of the subject, aptitude for prerequisite subjects, contact with guidance/counselors, involvement in agricultural child labour, exposure to mass media and visit commercial farms influenced their choice of agriculture as career or course of study. Keywords: Career choice; Agricultural career; counseling services; Secondary school students; Social determinants; Rural secondary schools (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:asi:ajosrd:v:10:y:2020:i:1:p:515-527:id:2060 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development from Asian Economic and Social Society |
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