Numerous public and private organizations and agencies conduct adult agricultural education programs. Many of the public sector programs can be traced to the Smith-Lever and Smith-Hughes Acts enacted in 1914 and 1917, respectively, that created the Cooperative Extension System and provided federal funds for vocational-technical education in agriculture. Adult agricultural education programs tha...

Identifying role of extension system in adoption of new technologies have important role to developing favorable extension systems. For supporting sustainable agriculture in Iran needs extension systems to be carefully thought and accurately implemented. The purpose of this is analyzing role of extension activities in adoption of sustainable agriculture. Based on the results the attending agric...

As the technology of food agriculture, and natural resources continues to develop rapidly, agricultural education programs must continually adapt to change. Distance education technologies may be able to facilitate the modernization and improvement of high school agriculture programs. Are agriculture teachers interested in teaching via a live, two-way, interactive telecommunications system? A n...

Increasing rate of unemployment among the graduates of Iranian higher agricultural education system has been developed into one of the major socio-economic problems of the nation. Entrepreneurship is one of the most important factors contributing to economic and social development, that is, it is a main driver for employment creation. As such, many policy initiatives in Iran attempt to pull agr...

there are no known studies that have been conducted focusing on the congruency or discrepancy of pre service agricultural education programmes in relation to secondary school agriculture teaching in zimbabwe. the purpose of this study was therefore to make a qualitative investigation on the contribution of pre service agricultural education training programmes to the teaching of high school agr...

The study was a descriptive survey, designed to determine the graduates' perceptions of the diploma in agricultural education courses offered at the Botswana College of Agriculture. The specific objectives were to: (I) determine the perceived usefulness of the courses taught at the college for teaching agricultural science, (2) determine the perceptions of the graduates about the relevance of p...

The National FFA AgriScience Teacher of the Year Award Program was instituted in 1988 to recognize outstanding agricultural educators who emphasized agriscience technology in their curriculum. This study sought to determine selected characteristics of the National FFA AgriScience Teacher of the Year Award winners and their programs from the years 1988 1995 (N = 253). A purposive sample of 187 a...

The National Research Council’s Committee on Agricultural Education in Secondary Schools recognized the value of supervised experience and recommended that all students participate in worthwhile supervised agricultural experience (SAE) programs (Committee on Agricultural Education in Secondary Schools, 1988). The committee indicated that these programs should include experience in land laborato...

the farmers of the future (fof) initiative implemented a programme of integrating natural resources management in the basic education curriculum. the purpose of the study was to document activities and determine the effects of fof programme on primary school learners’ perceptions towards natural resources management by comparing learners involved in the fof programme and those not involved. fur...