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Table 3 Barriers to the inclusion of TEK in school on Malekula

From: Perceptions of the value of traditional ecological knowledge to formal school curricula: opportunities and challenges from Malekula Island, Vanuatu

Barriers to the inclusion of TEK in school

Support from TEK experts (n = 27)

Support from teacher (n = 12)

Support from officials (n = 10)

Practical barriers

   

   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

   

   Mode of knowledge transmission

9

5

6

   Transmission of underlying values

4

4

4

   Different knowledge systems

6

2

3