Foundations of Agricultural Education, Fourth Edition

Foundations of Agricultural Education, Fourth Edition

Author: B. Allen Talbert

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2022-05-15

Total Pages: 669

ISBN-13: 1612497535

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Foundations of Agricultural Education, Fourth Edition is designed for college students in agricultural education and others interested in agricultural education as fundamental preparation for the profession. Teachers of agricultural education and those in support roles will find this book to be a helpful resource. This fourth edition is updated to reflect current educational theory and practices, and includes changed laws and initiatives since the third edition. This updated textbook is appropriate for both introductory and advanced courses. Each chapter begins with a scenario designed to engage the learner in thinking about the content of that chapter and draws from relevant research and literature. Photos, illustrations, and tables provide greater context to key concepts, and every chapter concludes with questions for review and discussion, as well as additional activities designed to guide the learner into further exploration. Foundations of Agricultural Education, Fourth Edition is an engaging, immersive guide that will help prepare the next generation of agricultural educators.


Understanding Agriculture

Understanding Agriculture

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1988-02-01

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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This book responds to the widespread recognition among experts that our educational system needs to change in order to provide the skills and knowledge necessary to ensure the future vitality of U.S. agriculture. Understanding Agriculture focuses on agricultural literacy (education about agriculture) and vocational agricultural education (education in agriculture). The section on agricultural literacy addresses the teaching of science through agriculture, teacher education and training, model educational programs, community support, and agricultural career exploration programs. Vocational agricultural education is examined in terms of program enrollment, availability and content, supervised occupational experiences, the Future Farmers of America program, and teacher education and supply.


Guide to Sources for Agricultural and Biological Research

Guide to Sources for Agricultural and Biological Research

Author: J. Richard Blanchard

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-07-28

Total Pages: 748

ISBN-13: 0520328736

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.


Transforming Agricultural Education for a Changing World

Transforming Agricultural Education for a Changing World

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2009-11-16

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0309132215

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During the next ten years, colleges of agriculture will be challenged to transform their role in higher education and their relationship to the evolving global food and agricultural enterprise. If successful, agriculture colleges will emerge as an important venue for scholars and stakeholders to address some of the most complex and urgent problems facing society. Such a transformation could reestablish and sustain the historical position of the college of agriculture as a cornerstone institution in academe, but for that to occur, a rapid and concerted effort by our higher education system is needed to shape their academic focus around the reality of issues that define the world's systems of food and agriculture and to refashion the way in which they foster knowledge of those complex systems in their students. Although there is no single approach to transforming agricultural education, a commitment to change is imperative.


The United States Government Internet Directory

The United States Government Internet Directory

Author: Shana Hertz Hattis

Publisher: Bernan Press

Published: 2011-12

Total Pages: 595

ISBN-13: 1598884921

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The United States Government Internet Directory (formerly the e-Government and Web Directory: U.S. Federal Government Online) serves as a guide to the changing landscape of government information online. The Directory is an indispensable guidebook for anyone who is looking for official U.S. government resources on the Web. The U.S. government's information online is massive and can be difficult to locate. Thus you need The United States Government Internet Directory to navigate the maze of data and locate the materials you seek. --Book Jacket.


Precision Agriculture for Sustainability

Precision Agriculture for Sustainability

Author: Narendra Khatri

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2024-02-13

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 1000955532

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This new book delves into how modern technologies—i.e., global positioning systems (GPS), unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), image processing methods, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning—are being used to make agriculture more farmer-friendly and more economically profitable. The volume focuses on the use of smart sensors, actuators, and decision support systems to provide intelligent data about crop health and for monitoring for yield prediction, soil quality, nutrition requirement prediction, etc. The authors discuss robotic-based innovations in agriculture, soft computing methodologies for crop forecasting, machine learning techniques to classify and identify plant diseases, deep convolutional neural networks for recognizing nutrient deficiencies, and more.


Sport in Britain

Sport in Britain

Author: Richard William Cox

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780719025921

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