Factors determining extension education as a career

Psychiatry as a career: A survey of factors affecting students’ interest in Psychiatry as a career

The objectives of this study were to determine the characteristics of medical students and graduates interested in choosing psychiatry as a career and the obstacles in choosing this field of medicine. Two private and two public medical institutes were surveyed from June 2007 to August 2007. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to third, fourth and final year students and to medical...

Teaching in vocational education as a second career

Background: This study investigates the determinants of career change for individuals who change their job to become a teacher in vocational education and training (VET) as a second career. The question of what motivates individuals to forfeit their original occupation to become a teacher is important for policy making not only in times of teacher shortages but also in light of the quality of i...

Determining Research, Education, and Extension Requirements for Application of the Precision Agricultural System in Iran

Reluctance towards implementation of precision agriculture (PA) seems to be based on lackof consideration to education, extension, and research sectors. The objective of this study isto identify educational, extensional, and research requirements in application of the PAsystem. The research population included all the experts in Qazvin province who are familiarwith PA concepts and PA’s equipmen...

Qualitative Research as a Tool for Agricultural and Extension Education

In the opening of his essay, “Disciplines of Inquiry in Education,” Shulman makes two important points. The first is that, because education has been tied to psychology as a foundation discipline, it has adopted, from psychology, the scientific, experimental method of research. The second is that methodology determines the kinds of questions a researcher is able, or at least is likely, to ask (...

Career maturity: a priority for secondary education