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Lesson: |
Historical
Development of Agricultural Education |
Introduction:
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E. D. Hirsch Jr. wrote a book in 1987 titled "Cultural Literacy."
In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Professionals in agricultural education need to possess "AgriCULTURAL Education LITERACY". This lesson is more involved than most in this course because there are certain laws, court cases, reform reports and other events that you should know about. Have your highlighter handy as you work through this lesson. |
Learning Objectives:
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Upon completion of this unit the
learner should be able to:
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| Instructional Activities:  |
 Take the interactive pretest on the evolution
of education. Read Chapter 7 "The History of
American Education" in Sadker
and Sadker (Chapter 9 in the earlier versions) Read
Chapter 2 "Development of School Based Agricultural Education" in the Handbook on Agricultural Education in
Public Schools. Daniel Schugurensky has developed a
web site on the history of education. You are not expected to read
all the entries listed, but you should be aware of this site.
If you teach in North Carolina, you
might be interested in a time
line on the development of agricultural education in America with
special
emphasis on North Carolina. There have been a number of court
cases, reform reports, etc.
that have impacted agricultural education. Read Important
Events in Agricultural Education and Education to learn more about
these. Most people believe the Smith-Hughes
Act started agricultural
education. This is not exactly true. Two articles by Gary Moore provide
information
about agricultural education prior to Smith-Hughes - The Status of
Agricultural Education Prior to the Smith-Hughes Act published in
the The Agricultural Education Magazine (Feb. 1987; Vol. 59;
Num. 8) and The
Involvement of Experiment Stations in Secondary Agricultural Education,
1887-1917 published in Agricultural History (volume 62,
number 2, spring 1988). The current legislation governing
vocational education is the Carl
Perkins Act. The ACTE (Association for Career and Technical
Education) web site has information about this act.
View the PowerPoint presentation on "Evolution
of Education" on-line or download.
Federal legislation has played an
important role in the development
of agricultural education. View the PowerPoint presention on Federal
legislation on-line or download
it.
The review quiz for Chapter 7 can be found here: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073525901/student_view0/chapter7/multiple_choice_quiz.html |
Lagniappe:
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Since this lesson
looks at history, you might find the history of the world
as written by students to be interesting. |
Assignment:  |
Select one piece of federal
legislation that you think was of great importance to the development
or growth of agricultural education and send an e-mail to your
classmates identifying the legislation and telling why you think it is
of great importance. |
Jr., argues that children in the
United States are being deprived
of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in
contemporary
society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information
that
writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Thus even if a
student
has a basic competence in the English language, he or she has little
chance
of entering the American mainstream without knowing what a silicon chip
is
or when the Civil War was fought. In this book Hirsch identifies 5,000
names, dates, essential facts and concepts that an educated person
should know.