Oversimplification or inappropriate interpretation of complex neuroscience research is widespread among curricula claiming that brain-based approaches are effective for improved learning and retention. We examine recent curricula claiming to be based on neuroscience research, discuss the implications of such misinterpretation for special education, how neuroscience actually supports many tradit...

Globalization and growing competition have accelerated the need for knowledge intensive work performance in all the sectors of economy. In the agriculture sector constant application of latest ideas and better work technologies is essential to enhance productivity in the interest of economic well being of farmers and for ensuring food security. The current models of agriculture knowledge transf...

The present study was launched in two districts of NWFP namely Peshawar and Nowshera during 2007-08. Forty agricultural extension agents were interviewed through face to face interview schedule. The main objectives of the study were to identify the challenges, constraints, problems and shortcoming faced by extension agents engaged in disseminating the latest agriculture technology and to make p...

The major purpose of this chapter is to explore the options of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to complement conventional agricultural extension services in Tanzania. Group discussions and meetings were conducted to investigate the role of ICTs in extension services delivery using CATWOE framework of Soft Systems Methodology. The findings of the study reveal that the use of SS...

a research can also reveal the cooperative effectiveness of agencies such as evaluation will lead to discover the weakness and strengths for further improvement of this program. the present study was designed in 2009 especially to see the effectiveness of the working of agricultural extension staff as perceived by farmers in district okara-pakistan. the data were collected with the help of a sp...

Research in agricultural communications is not guided by a national research agenda. Therefore, the substantial body of produced from scholars working discipline represents scattered efforts. We conducted content analysis journal articles published Journal Applied Communications between 2000 and 2019 to identify themes that establish discipline’s scholarly base. Through an examination n = 259 a...

Ten years after privatising agricultural extension in Brandenburg (North-eastern Germany) the political and economic conditions for integrating public goods issues have taken a change for the worse. The precarious financial and institutional structure of agro-environmental projects, government’s loss of influence on extension strategies and contents, and a lack of linkages between important reg...

Arbindra Rimal is Assistant Professor at the Department of Agriculture – Agribusiness, Southwest Missouri State University. Tommy Perkins is Professor at the Department of Agriculture – Animal Science, Southwest Missouri State University. Joe C. Paschal is Professor at the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, Texas A&M University System. Correspondence Address: 206 Karls Hall, Southwest Missou...

the main purpose followed in the ongoing research was to investigate the role of the extension factors (experience of familiarity with agricultural extension services, participation of paddy farmers in extension - educational courses, their participation in farmer field school (ffs) programs, and their number of extension contacts regarding ipm) in the adoption of ipm technology among paddy far...

The number of nurses across the United States with expertise in agricultural health nursing is unknown, yet as many as 8,000 are needed. This article describes agricultural health content in nursing programs in the southeastern United States. Agriculture is primarily family based but ranks among the top three most hazardous industries in America. Nurses in the southeastern United States serve m...