AEE 501
Foundations
of Agricultural and Extension Education
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Class
15 The Future of Agricultural and Extension Education
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Introduction: |
Changes in agriculture and changes in society have an impact on the operation of agricultural education and extension programs. In this lesson we look at some of the past changes and then examine future trends to see what impact they may have on the future of agricultural and extension education. |
Lesson
Objectives:
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At
the completion of the lesson you should be able to:
 Identify
significant advances in agriculture over the past 100 years
Look
at predictions for the future and determine their possible impact on
agricultural
education and extension
Identify
demographic changes in the population and hypothesize how these will
impact
on agricultural and extension education. |
Learning
Activities:
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Take
the Advances
in Scientific Agriculture pre-test to see how much you need to
learn.
View
the World Future Society web site. Be
and sure to check the table
of
contents of past issues of the Futurist to see the types of
articles being written.
At one time some of these articles were online but no longer are. When
you peruse the table of contents note April 1999. You should also check
out some of the predictions
for the future.
Visit
the Global Change web
site
and click on the topic, article or video that is of interest to you.
In
1987 Patton wrote about The
Extension Organization of the Future in the Journal of Extension.
Is the Extension Service of today what he described over a decade ago?
King
and Boehlje have an interesting article in the Journal of Extension
titled Extension:
On the Brink of Extinction or Distinction? Do you agree with their
view of the future of extension?
What
is the Future
of
Career Development?
What
will work in
the
future look like?
This was written 17 years ago. Are the predictions on target. View
a PowerPoint Presentation on Advances
in Scientific Agriculture and Future Predictons. |
Assignments:
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There
is no weekly assignment this week. Start studying for the final exam. |