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Download full textHalbrook, Steve A., Ed.; Grace, Teddee E., Ed. – 1994
The annual conference of the National Public Policy Education Committee (NPPEC) is held to improve the policy education efforts of extension workers responsible for public affairs programs. This publication contains 26 conference papers: "Rural America and the Information Revolution: An Exploration of Possibilities and Potentialities"…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Conflict Resolution, Extension Education, Natural Resources
Vandehaar, Alan, Ed. – 1989
This booklet contains summaries of workshop presentations at the conference on community development. This conference brought local community officials and leaders together with interested citizens to learn about successful rural community development activities occurring in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Sessions covered four main…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Cooperation, Community Development, Community Planning
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. Inst. for Higher Educational Opportunity. – 1972
Recommendations for maintaining relevant programs which resulted from this meeting of college and university presidents and administrators are applicable to all colleges and universities offering programs of agriculture in the region. Given in this report are two major presentations entitled "The Integration of Knowledge in a Specialized Society"…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Agriculture, Business, Conference Reports
Commonwealth Association for the Education and Training of Adults. – 1988
This document reports on a training workshop on educating adults and on the birth of a new professional association. Section A describes the workshop's rationale, purpose, participants, environment, atmosphere, field trips, study groups, inauguration of the Commonwealth Association for the Education and Training of Adults (CAETA), speeches, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations
Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State, MS. – 1990
Cooperative Extension Service personnel from 13 Southern states attended a conference on rural revitalization, focusing on Extension's role in (1) economic development, (2) human capital, and (3) infrastructure; 17 of the 22 papers presented are divided among those categories. Three of the remaining papers provide respectively, an overview of the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Extension Education
Warner, Paul D., Ed.; Campbell, Raymond, Ed. – 1990
This document is a summary of remarks presented at a joint meeting of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Community Resource Development state leaders in 1989. The focus of the meeting was economic viability, rural extension and education, water quality, waste management, biotechnology, low-input sustainable agriculture (LISA), and rural…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Trends, Agriculture
New York State Legislative Commission on Rural Resources, Albany. – 1984
Education workshop participants at the First Statewide Legislative Symposium on Rural Development pinpointed trends, strengths, weaknesses, goals, and public policy questions for grades K-12 and higher education. For grades K-12, rural schools were characterized by increased enrollment due to migration from urban areas, increasing popularity with…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Definitions, Educational Finance, Educational Opportunities
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). International Inst. for Educational Planning. – 2002
More than half of the world's population, and more than 70 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas where hunger, illiteracy, and low school achievement are common. Education in rural areas is crucial for achieving sustainable development. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and UNESCO's International Institute…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Agriculture, Community Involvement
Deboeck, Guido; Ng, Ronald – 1980
The paper presents results of discussions during an 8-day workshop (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1979) on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of East Asian and Pacific rural development projects. Major workshop themes identified are managerial, technical, and institutional aspects of monitoring. The introduction discusses previous World Bank…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Consultants
Koehnen, Timothy, Ed.; Cristovao, Artur, Ed. – 1993
This proceedings report is organized into four sections dealing respectively with: (1) global issues facing extension education; (2) extension strategies and methods; (3) extension planning and evaluation; and (4) training and curriculum development. The following papers are included: "Extension Science: To Broaden the Scope" (van…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agricultural Education, Case Studies, Continuing Education
