This report found that the image of agricultural education was moderately positive at all three institutions studied, with Virginia Polytechnic Institute being significantly lower than the other two institutions. The findings illustrated that image within colleges of agriculture needs more improvement than in education. No significant differences…

This monograph traces the history of Iowa State University from its founding in 1868 to 1982. Following a brief description of the background of teacher training in the ancient world, and its development in Europe and subsequently the United States, the foundations laid for an educational system in mid-western United States are discussed. Iowa…

The rationale for locating the departments of agricultural education in colleges of education (vs. in colleges of agriculture) is presented and is based upon a desire to prevent fragmentation, enhance curriculum flexibility and innovation, emphasize coordinated research and service, improve staff recruitment and selection, and strengthen funding…

The article reviews new approaches to develop and organize adult literacy programs for the rural population. The entire program of teaching covered neo-literates, functional literacy, and vocational training. Curriculum development, teacher training, reading materials, and education of rural women are discussed. (JB)

The rationale for locating the departments of agricultural education in colleges of agriculture (vs. colleges of education) is presented. The basic argument focuses on the vocational interests of potential students, course requirements, access to research funds, and future responsibilities of agricultural education. (BM)

This series of articles is devoted to a discussion of the relationships that exist between agricultural education and other agencies, including community organizations, cooperative extension, other vocational programs, international education agencies, and colleges of agriculture. (SK)

Discusses the characteristics that make land-grant universities best suited for training vocational agricultural teachers. Emphasizes the resources available at land-grant universities, the advantages of the one-institution training concept, and the ineffectiveness of non-land-grant universities in reducing the vocational agriculture teacher…

Many factors enter into the problem of remaking the rural schools, such as well-prepared teachers, satisfactory unit of organization, close and intelligent supervision, and redirected course of study. Of these, none is more important than the first. It is certain that the trained leadership needed in rural districts can not be fully realized until…

Since 1890, historically black land-grant colleges and universities have delivered quality teaching, research, and extension service primarily to black people in Southern and border states. The Second Morrill Act of 1890 required that all land-grant funds be equitably divided in states that maintained separate schools for races. Tuskeegee…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a paper presenting the results of a survey conducted in 1967 by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations at the request of the South Pacific Commission. The survey included existing facilities for agricultural education in the several territories…

This bulletin represents a thesis presented by the late Harry Percy Barrows to the faculty of George Washington University in 1919 for the degree of doctor of philosophy. It furnishes an historic record that should be very helpful in the future development of instruction in agriculture in this country. Since secondary instruction in agriculture…

The most significant contemporaneous movement in education is the effort to adapt the work of schools directly to the lives of the pupils. It is the expression of the effort to make the school training applicable. The normal activities of the child are to be directed and trained in such a way that real education will result therefrom. Education…

The Report of Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges for 1917-18 exhibits certain deviations from the tendencies shown in previous reports. This is doubtless caused in some measure by the disturbed conditions of the country which have resulted from the war and the subsequent readjustments of peace. The teaching force in the land-grant colleges has…

In recent years it has become clear that one of the most valuable and direct services which the Bureau of Education can render to the several States is to respond to invitations to conduct educational surveys. Through the medium of these surveys, the State authorities are able to secure unprejudiced and sympathetic study of educational conditions,…

Interest in agricultural education continues to increase. The attempt to teach agriculture is no longer confined to the agricultural college and special agricultural school. Methods of teaching the most important facts and the elementary principles of agriculture are discussed in the meetings of most of our educational associations. There is a…