Teaching Values In Agricultural Education

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Teaching animal bioethics in agricultural higher education in France

Introduction France, with a deep agricultural heritage founded on familial farming, on the diversity of the "terroirs" and of the breeds (Cavailhes et al 1987, Brun et al 1989, Limouzin 1996), has a close and rich relationship with animal. The rural depopulation and urbanisation, moving the population away from farm animals while encouraging companion animals (Bonduelle and Joublin, 1995), the ...

LEGO Mindstorms Robots as a Teaching Tool in Agricultural Education

The objective of this paper is to convey the results of a first effort to use LEGO Mindstorms kits in an introductory course in Technical Systems Management (TSM), at the department of Agricultural Engineering of the University of Illinois. Four groups of students built Robotic Agricultural Machines using LEGO Mindstorms kits, with Robolab as the programming environment. The projects were carri...

Values Education: the Missing Link in Quality Teaching

Educational research of the 1990s and beyond has challenged earlier conceptions concerned with the capacity of teachers, and formal education generally, to make a difference in the lives of students. Highly interventionist studies (cf. Newmann, 1996; Darling-Hammond, 1997) were conducted in the USA that tested, against virtually every category of disadvantage, whether a particular approach to t...

Valuing teaching and teaching values.

CORRESPONDENCE TO: Neil Pickering Bioethics Centre, Te Pokapu Matatika Koiora, Division of Health Sciences, PO Box 913, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand [email protected] A quick review of some relevant medical codes in New Zealand reveals that there is a strong belief that doctors have a duty to engage in passing on the knowledge and practice of medicine to the next generation of doctors. Fo...