Agricultural Education: Agricultural Societies

Simulating Social and Economic Specialization in Small-Scale Agricultural Societies

We introduce a model for agent specialization in small-scale human societies that incorporates planning based on social influence and economic state. Agents allocate their time among available tasks based on exchange, demand, competition from other agents, family needs, and previous experiences. Agents exchange and request goods using barter, balanced reciprocal exchange, and generalized recipr...

Journal of Southern Agricultural Education Research

This study compared cooperating teachers’ and student teachers’ perceptions of important elements of the student teaching experience and identified selected characteristics of cooperating centers. Forty-nine cooperating teachers and 25 student teachers provided data. Questionnaire items were divided into five “core” areas based on a review of literature. Respondents rated the elements using a s...

Journal of Agricultural Education - Vol. 39

This national study of post-secondary departments of agricultural education examined leadership and human resource management/development course offerings, course characteristics, future department plans, backgrounds of faculty, and related outreach activities. The majority of the courses were offered for undergraduate credit and were predominately required courses for agricultural education de...

Integrating Inquiry-Based Learning into Agricultural Education

Agricultural Education and Training Access Barriers Report