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Taylor, Jeffery – 1994
This book presents a study of educational institutions in Manitoba (Canada) agriculture before 1925, the dominant ideologies that resided there, and the impact of those ideologies on the agrarian movement. The first chapter overviews a variety of ideologies, state structures, and agrarian movements in North America during the late 19th and early…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Agricultural Education, Bureaucracy, Capitalism
Download full textDolloph, Frances; And Others – 1995
In 1988, Shepherd College-South Branch (SC-SB), a rural institution serving primarily place-bound adults, began offering non-nursing courses that would transfer to three regional nursing programs. Student requests, however, and a recognized shortage of registered nurses led to the establishment of a two-year rural nursing program in 1993. A county…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Labor Needs, Needs Assessment
Information Access in Rural America: January 1980 - April 1994. Quick Bibliography Series: QB 94-39.
John, Patricia La Caille – 1994
This bibliography contains 166 entries related to information access in rural communities. The entries were derived from the AGRICOLA database produced by the National Agricultural Library and include journal articles, books, conference papers, and government reports. Entries cover such topics as information centers, information needs, cooperative…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Annotated Bibliographies, Community Information Services, Delivery Systems
Klees, Steve; Matangala, Anisio; Spronk, Barbara; Visser, Jan – 1997
This report was prepared in the framework of Mozambique's concern to respond to the needs of large numbers of unreached learners and to attend, in an integrated fashion, to a growing diversity of learning needs. As step 1 of a three-phase process assisted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO's)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Development, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries
Bakri, Mohammad Saleh – 1991
The relationship between agricultural extension agents and wheat farmers in the Medina region, Saudi Arabia, was analyzed, based on each group's perception of the relationship. Participants were 73 randomly selected wheat farmers and 31 of 34 agricultural extension agents working in the region during spring 1990. Farmers were interviewed, and…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Farmer Education, Agricultural Education, Agronomy
Sullivan, Karen Collamore; And Others – 1983
An annotated bibliography of journals and newsletters on non-formal education and development, intended for those actively involved in the field, updates an earlier bibliography on the subject. This bibliography contains 609 entries, each annotated and with information on availability. Cross-references are provided for publications which may be…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communications, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Sexauer, Celeste Burns; Paul, Taunya – 1989
A project was conducted to identify effective instructional strategies for rural unemployed and employed adults needing adult basic education (ABE) and General Educational Development (GED) instruction. Instructional strategies examined included time of day classes were offered, location of class, instructional setting (classroom/individual), and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Classroom Techniques, Delivery Systems
Development Communication Report, 1987
Four issues of this newsletter focus primarily on the use of communication technologies in developing nations to educate their people. The issues included in this collection are: (1) No. 56 (1987-1), which highlights agricultural, health, and educational projects that have used radio, telecommunications, and interactive video to train trainers…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Communications Satellites, Developing Nations, Distance Education
Young, John A.; Caday, Peter – 1979
A study of small-scale farmers in Polk County, Oregon, examined characteristics of, and variations among, small-scale farmers and developed some guidelines for assistance programs targeted for such a group. During the months of May, June, and July of 1978 an average of 4 days a week was spent locating and interviewing 44 small farm operators in…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Classification, Delivery Systems, Farmers
Klonglan, Gerald E.; And Others – 1981
Data were gathered from Community Resource Development (CRD) field staff and from knowledgeable citizens, to obtain multiple indicators of the impact of CRD projects on economic and noneconomic changes and to assess the degree to which special client/audiences had shared in positive and negative consequences resulting in part from the CRD program.…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Citizen Role, Community Change
Development Communication Report, 1978
The keynote article in this issue describes some empirically demonstrated beneficial functions of radio in development communications: (1) it improves the quality and relevance of education; (2) it keeps educational costs down; (3) it broadens access to education; and (4) it extends the impact of time, money, and effort outside the formal…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communications Satellites, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations
Colle, Royal D. – 1976
Common problems and possible solutions in communication with rural villagers in developing countries are discussed in terms of communication extension strategies, mass communication media, the use of simple communication technology in place of the more sophisticated and expensive methods, a case study of a successful communication project in…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Audiotape Recordings, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Friedland, William H.; Kappel, Tim – 1979
Because of the decline of farm population and family farms, the increase in energy-intensivity, and concentration process in agriculture, a rising tide of criticism has focused on the land grant system and its role in encouraging scientific applications supporting these trends. A study was conducted to develop a strategy that would change…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agriculture, Change Strategies
BROWN, EMORY J.; HARTMAN, JOEL – 1968
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY CONDUCTED A FIVE YEAR (1961-66) AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION PROJECT IN TWO PENNSYLVANIA COUNTIES. THIS PAPER REPORTED THE PRELIMINARY FINDINGS. USING THE CRITERION OF ADOPTION OF SELECTED AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES BY SURROUNDING FARMERS, THEY ATTEMPTED TO MEASURE THE INFLUENCE OF 17…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agricultural Education, Analysis of Variance, Dairy Farmers
Saupe, William E. – 1980
Information about small farms is valuable at federal, state, and local levels to program managers and community developers, researchers and educators, policy makers and farm families themselves. Adequate information can help in the assessment of small farm program needs, development of appropriate policies, and management of effective programs,…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Community Resources, Family Characteristics, Family Financial Resources
