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Tilling Fertile Soil: Principles to Guide Transplants from Agriculture to Education Dissemination.
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Klein, Susan Shurberg – Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1992
This article describes how the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cooperative Extension Service (CES) might serve as a model for improving the dissemination of education research and development results. After reviewing the distinctive aspects of each dissemination system, various features of CES are listed that might be replicated and others that…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Research, Federal Programs, Information Dissemination
The District Education Extension Agent as "Strategic Broker": Toward a New Vision for Federally Sponsored Dissemination.
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Peters, Laurence – Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1992
Describes and explores the District Education Agent program, a community-based program proposed by the Subcommittee on Select Education of the U.S. House of Representatives, which is comparable to the agricultural extension service. Ways in which it might incorporate new technological capabilities are suggested. (12 references) (DB)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Action, Computer Networks, Educational Change
Prospectus for a Cooperative Extension System in Education.
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Rogers, Everett M. – Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1992
This article reviews lessons learned from the agricultural extension model that may apply to the proposed cooperative extension service in education. The agricultural extension model is a user-oriented system linking knowledge producers with other knowledge users. In education, the adopters of innovations may be organizations as well as…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Educational Innovation, Educational Research, Extension Education
New Directions for a New Decade. A Report to the Cooperative Extension System.
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National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1989
This document, the first joint annual report issued by the Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (ES-USDA), and the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP), summarizes the decisions made by the two organizations in November, 1989, and includes descriptive highlights of the process implemented by the cooperative extension…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, At Risk Persons, Climate
Compilation of Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Questions for Discussion. 104th Congress, 1st Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Agriculture. – 1995
This volume compiles and reprints the responses of 37 organizations to a series of questions issued by the House Committee on Agriculture in anticipation of debates concerning the Research Title of the 1995 Farm Bill due for updating and revision. The questions address some of the following topics: the role of the federal government in…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Sciences, College Role, Cooperative Programs
Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies, 1995.
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Halbrook, Steve A., Ed.; Merry, Carroll E., Ed. – 1996
This document contains abstracts and the complete texts of 19 papers that were presented at a conference held to improve the policy education efforts of extension workers responsible for public affairs programs. The following papers are included: "Microwave Society and Crock-Pot Government" (Bill Graves); "Citizen Participation,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Agribusiness, Agricultural Education