Barriers to the inclusion of TEK in school | Support from TEK experts (n = 27) | Support from teacher (n = 12) | Support from officials (n = 10) |
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Practical barriers | Â | Â | Â |
   Characteristics of formal school model |  |  |  |
Inexpert teachers | 12 | 5 | 2 |
Lack of time in curriculum | 5 | 10 | 6 |
Lack of political support | 4 | 6 | 7 |
   Characteristics of TEK |  |  |  |
Increasing transmission of 'bad' kastom | 9 | 0 | 2 |
Payment and availability of resource people | 10 | 0 | 0 |
Lack of community support/ability | 11 | 4 | 1 |
Linguistic/cultural diversity | 3 | 7 | 4 |
Epistemological barriers | Â | Â | Â |
   Mode of knowledge transmission | 9 | 5 | 6 |
   Transmission of underlying values | 4 | 4 | 4 |
   Different knowledge systems | 6 | 2 | 3 |