Perception of Teachers on Physiological Needs and the Collapse of Feeding Programme for Access to Education in Primary School Children

Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to determine the perception of primary school teachers on physiological needs and collapse of feeding programme for access to education. The study was guided by two research questions and one hypothesis, A descriptive study design was adopted. A total number of one hundred and twelve (112) teachers from public schools made up the sample for the study. A ten-item questionnaire was developed, by the researcher after reviewing some related literature, validated and used in collecting data. Data collected was analyzed using mean, standard deviation and t-test. The findings reveal the perception of teachers perceived that physiological needs such as immediate attention to feeding as a basis for education, hunger taking place of education and children lacking concentration without food. Besides teachers also perceive greed and selfishness, inadequate fund, lack of proper orientation, under estimation and change of policies on the part of government led to the collapse of the feeding programme. It also reveled that there is no significant difference between the mean scores of teachers based on location. Recommendations were made based on the findings.

Keywords: physiological needs, motivation, psychology, education