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Strong, Robert; Harder, Amy; Carter, Hannah – Journal of Extension, 2010
The purpose of the study reported here was to explore and describe how Extension agents selected teaching strategies for adult audiences. Andragogy is hypotheses concerning the attributes of adult learners (Knowles, Swanson, & Holton III, 2005). Extension agents responsible for teaching the Master Beef Producer (MBP) program were purposively…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Qualitative Research, Teacher Effectiveness, Rural Extension
Stonecipher, Charles Leroy – 1966
Forty-four employees of the General Extension Division of the Nebraska Agricultural Extension Service and 119 Agricultural Extension employees of the University of Nebraska comprised the population of this study comparing personnel's knowledge of Agricultural Extension and General Extension programs and differences in knowledge of programs…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Curriculum, Educational Finance, Extension Agents
Richardson, John G. – 1995
A research project was conducted to determine the methods of information delivery preferred by targeted clientele of extension offices in North Carolina, and what methods clients might prefer in the future. Eleven North Carolina Cooperative Extension agents representing all areas of the state cooperated in the study. The agents developed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Delivery Systems, Educational Attitudes, Educational Technology
Roling, Niels – 1971
The two papers that comprise this document focus upon the communication process in extension work. The first paper aims to create greater awareness of the change agent's communication behavior, to make strategies of changing people more into an object of conscious deliberation and less of an art by discussing some of the central elements of the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives, Change Agents, Communication Skills
Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. – 1964
The educational activities of approximately 11,000 county and 3,100 state cooperative extension staff members are presented in this statistical report for 1964. Included are data on the number of extension agents employed; extension methods (individual personal contact, news stories, radio and television broadcasts, publications, circular letters,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Enrollment, Extension Agents, Home Economics Education
Clement, Douglas M.; And Others – 1995
Two diverse extension audiences in Polk County, North Carolina were surveyed to determine their levels of use of extension information and their preferred means for receiving information. Information was gathered through mailed surveys returned by 48 beef producers and 40 county government workers (about a 67 percent return for each group). Nearly…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Delivery Systems, Educational Attitudes, Educational Technology
Caldwell, Allen E.; Richardson, John G. – 1995
Nearly all burley tobacco farmers in the mountains of North Carolina are small or part-time farmers who have limited time for seeking information. Although they desire accurate, user-friendly, timely, and relevant information, their willingness or opportunity to spend time in face-to-face contacts or grower meetings is becoming severely limited.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Delivery Systems, Educational Attitudes, Educational Technology
Rudramoorthy, B. – 1964
Extension, the process of extending the knowledge of recent advances in science and technology to the people who need it, has been emphasized in India since the introduction of the Community Development Programme in 1952. Community development involves two distinct processes--extension education and community organization--and has had four…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Agents, Community Development, Developing Nations
Fishel, W.L.; And Others – 1964
A number of structure and policy changes are proposed for the Ohio Cooperative Extension Service to orient it toward the state's current needs. Demographic and economic trends in the state have been in the direction of urban and suburban growth and industrial and commercial employment, with only a small percentage of the population now engaged in…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Agency Cooperation, Bibliographies, Budgets
Khan, Ghulam Subhani – 1969
This study developed a model for depicting the phenomenon of communication in extension education in the developing nations, with emphasis on the role of extension communicators in such settings. The present model was formulated on the basis of existing ones, then was compared with the actual situation as found in the literature on communication…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Developing Nations, Diffusion, Doctoral Dissertations
Cosgriffe, Harry A. – 1966
A study was made of the Washington Agricultural Extension Service from 1912 to 1961 to identify and interpret the changing administrative structure, program content, methods and techniques, relationships with other organizations and agencies, fundamental changes in ways of deciding educational content, influences of the Extension Service on…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Extension Agents
Sollie, Carlton R.; Linder, William W. – 1969
An experimental program of directed social change was undertaken in nine Mississippi counties by the Cooperative Extension Service with special funds provided by the Federal Extension Service. The purpose of the program was to test the hypothesis that the creation and use of systemic links in extension work would result in desired changes in…
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Home Visits, Homemaking Skills, Hygiene
Patel, Ishwarlal Chaturdas – 1967
This study investigated communication patterns, procedures, and background characteristics associated with effectiveness in village level workers (VLWs) in two districts of Gujarat, India. Questionnaire interviews were held with 222 VLWs who had induced farmers to adopt one or more farm practices. An appraisal form was used to measure the…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agricultural Education, Communication (Thought Transfer), Developing Nations
Maunder, Addison, H. – 1972
The basic philosophy of agricultural extension was established in the more highly developed countries over the past century. Newly formed nations, the rural population of which formerly maintained a subsistence agriculture with limited industry, found it essential to establish a better-balanced economy. This led to a variety of rural services and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Developing Nations, Educational Administration
GEORGE, JAMES DALTON – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THIS NORTH CAROLINA STUDY WAS TO ASSESS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELECTED ASPECTS OF COUNTY EXTENSION AGENTS' BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE (MAINLY COLLEGE MAJORS AND PARTICIPATION IN COURSES ON EXTENSION METHODS) AND THEIR DEFINITION OF THE ROLE OF COOPERATIVE EXTENSION. RESPONDENTS WERE 334 AGENTS REPRESENTING 99 OF THE 100 COUNTIES…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Analysis of Variance, Behavior Change, Counseling Services
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