ABSTRACT Increasingly studies claim that building young people’s vocational interest in agriculture, as a sector of meaningful employment, is a central dilemma of Africa’s education and labour market systems. With Ugandan students’ voices, this article examines some of the methodological dilemmas of agricultural education and training. The article draws from evidence generated through a qualitative case study of a public agricultural college. We undertook the study in line with our conceptual argument for mainstreaming young people’s voices in the search for solutions to improve agricultural education practice. The study explored and analysed students’ experiences and perceptions of the college’s vocational pedagogy. Findings that uncover weak agricultural vocational pedagogy at the case study college are analysed and discussed to inform our recommendation for the embedding of craftsmanship virtues in vocational education practice to optimise students’ achievement.

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乌干达探索农业职业教育学：学生的经验

摘要越来越多的研究认为，建立年轻人在农业上的职业兴趣作为有意义的就业部门，是非洲教育和劳动力市场体系的中心困境。本文用乌干达学生的声音，考察了农业教育和培训的一些方法论难题。本文借鉴了通过对公立农业大学进行定性案例研究而得出的证据。我们根据概念论点进行了这项研究，该论点是将年轻人的声音纳入主流，以寻求改善农业教育实践的解决方案。该研究探索并分析了学生对大学职业教育学的经验和看法。