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 ...

Interdisciplinary thinking as a skill appears to be of value to higher education students and those in employment. This idea is explored with reference to the agricultural and life sciences. The need for further understanding of the development of interdisciplinary thinking is acknowledged. This is closely related to the requirement for well-founded curriculum and course design. This publicatio...

the present research aimed at identifying employment limitations and constraints facing the university graduates in agricultural majors, also finding the solutions to enhance opportunities and job potentials for the agricultural graduates. the study used qualitative research methods. qualitative data collection was done with the help of semi-structured interviews. data were gathered from 30 emp...

the main objective of this descriptive- suvey research was to analyze components of quality of e-learning in the iranian agricultural higher education. the statistical population of the study consisted of the graduate students of iranian agricultural colleges (n=8541), out of which 286 people determined as sample using cochran formula and proportionate stratified sampling technique. the data we...

The following is the research question for this study. Are students’ learning styles based on the visual, auditory, tactile model correlated to satisfaction of course format in an online undergraduate course? The participants of this study were students enrolled in three sections of the Contemporary Worldviews course at a private higher education institution (HEI). Learning styles were determin...

In Illinois, agricultural education programs at the secondary level continue to experience enrollment declines (Craft, 1991). Data compiled between 1977 and 1986 by the Illinois Association of Vocational Agricultural Teachers (Witt. 1987) and the Illinois Board of Higher Education (Databook on Illinois Higher Education, 1986) from 1977 to 1986, showed declining numbers as high as 54 and 22 perc...