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Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. Inst. for Higher Educational Opportunity. – 1972
Recommendations for maintaining relevant programs which resulted from this meeting of college and university presidents and administrators are applicable to all colleges and universities offering programs of agriculture in the region. Given in this report are two major presentations entitled "The Integration of Knowledge in a Specialized Society"…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Agriculture, Business, Conference Reports
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome (Italy). – 1972
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) publications and documents issued by the Human Resources and Institutions division and by other technical divisions in the technical, economic, and social fields are selected, annotated and indexed in this bibliography. Documents issued prior to 1967 are not included but can be found in the Rural…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Curriculum, Documentation
Tompkins, E. H.; And Others – 1973
The report presents information about client families and their farms during their contact with the Vermont Rural and Farm Family Rehabilitation (RFFR) project from March 1, 1969 to June 30, 1971. Data are from 450 family case histories which include 2,089 members. Most were from northern Vermont. Families averaged 4.64 persons each, about 1 more…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Disabilities, Extension Agents, Extension Education
Kaiser, Gertrude E. – 1969
The dissertation traces the history of the organization and development of the Illinois Home Economics Program from its inception at the University of Illinois to the 1950s; and analyzes influences of social order upon the administrative structure and programs and an adult educational institution. Sources of data include annual reports, files,…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Doctoral Dissertations, Economic Factors, Educational Attitudes
Kohl, Fred Ernest – 1968
Major purposes of the study were to: (1) determine the critical behavioral requirements for the generic job of Idaho Extension agricultural agent based on the analysis of critical incidents, and (2) study several situational factors related to critical incidents. Situational factors were: (1) most important subject content (social, technological,…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Critical Incidents Method, Doctoral Dissertations, Employment Qualifications
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1972
The sixth annual report of the National Advisory Council on Extension and Continuing Education presents recommendations based on a review of 142 Federal programs, in addition to Title I programs, which in whole or in part fund extension, continuing education and community services activities. The report consists of a summary of current and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annual Reports, Community Services, Data Analysis
Haskins, Jack B. – 1975
The opinions of 533 Tennesseans were gathered in a survey conducted in late 1974. It was found that Tennesseans have somewhat more confidence in higher education than do Americans generally, with 43.7 percent saying they have great confidence, 46.5 percent saying they have some confidence, and 4.5 percent saying they have no confidence. The…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Educational Finance, Extramural Athletics, Higher Education
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Moore, G. A. B. – Canadian Journal of Educational Communication, 1985
Reports on University of Guelph field trials with Telidon, a videotex system, as the medium for an agricultural information service for Ontario farmers and as an instructional medium for testing and feedback in classrooms. From these experiences, conclusions are drawn about the potential of videotex for traditional and distance education. (MBR)
Descriptors: Costs, Distance Education, Field Tests, Foreign Countries
Anderson, Jock R.; Feder, Gershon – 2003
This paper analyzes the considerations that lead policy makers to undertake extension investments as a key public responsibility, as well as the complex set of factors and intra-agency incentives that explain variations in performance between different extension systems. The goals of extension include transferring knowledge from researchers to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adult Farmer Education, Decentralization, Delivery Systems
Ikerd, John – 2001
A 5-year collaborative project between Missouri, Michigan State, and Nebraska Universities to provide new opportunities for rural community self-development through sustainable agriculture had mixed results. This happened because community members did not understand the principles of sustainability, and because the extension education system was…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agriculture, Community Development, Empowerment
Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State, MS. – 1999
The Southern Rural Development Center (SRDC) is one of four regional rural development centers in the nation. SRDC coordinates rural development research and extension education programs cooperatively with the 29 land-grant institutions in 13 Southern states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. This annual report outlines activities undertaken by…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Community Development, Higher Education, Human Capital
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Gassaway, Bob M. – Journal of Extension, 1978
To strengthen extension programs in the six-county Meramec area of Missouri, the University of Missouri extension staff used Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) funds to train people to survey area rural residents, to provide jobs for CETA workers, and to present extension programs to residents, meshing extension and CETA programs.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Educational Programs, Extension Education
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Hassanein, Neva; Kloppenburg, Jack R., Jr. – Rural Sociology, 1995
Intensive rotational grazing by Wisconsin dairy farmers represents a local expression of the sustainable agriculture movement. Contrary to interpretations that view local knowledge in agriculture as idiosyncratic, these graziers use horizontal forms of organizing and information exchange to overcome the limits of personal experience and share…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agricultural Trends, Dairy Farmers, Diffusion (Communication)
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Rogers, Everett M. – Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1992
This article reviews lessons learned from the agricultural extension model that may apply to the proposed cooperative extension service in education. The agricultural extension model is a user-oriented system linking knowledge producers with other knowledge users. In education, the adopters of innovations may be organizations as well as…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Educational Innovation, Educational Research, Extension Education
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Ramirez, Ricardo – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2005
This paper reports on the making of the Communication and Information Strategy with the National Agricultural Advisory Services Programme (NAADS) in Uganda. The NAADS is a new organization in government responsible for the implementation of a demand-driven agricultural extension approach. The new extension approach calls for fundamental changes in…
Descriptors: Rural Extension, Change Agents, Public Policy, Policy Analysis
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