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The Workers’ Educational Association of Victoria and the University of Melbourne: A clash of purpose?

Author: Gordon Dadswell, School of Professional Development and Leadership, University of New England

Edition: Volume 45, Number 3, November 2005

Summary:  The paper challenges an argument made by Alf Wesson in 1972. His argument was that the failure of the University of Melbourne Extension Board to work effectively with the Worker’s Educational Association of Victoria was almost exclusively as a result of the poor management skills and personality of the Director of University Extension, Professor John Gunn. The paper argues that in fact it was the failure by four University of Melbourne inquiries to resolve a difficult situation. The lack of resolution was due to a complete misunderstanding by the University of the role of the Workers’ Educational Association

Keywords: Extension, director, inquiry

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Farmers’ perception of agricultural extension agents’ characteristics as factors for enhancing adult learning in Mezam division of Northwest Province of Cameroon

Author: Oladele O. Idowu, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Edition: Volume 45, Number 2, July 2005

Summary:  The education of farmers would be result oriented if among other things the learning enhancement situations are created. Farmers’ receptivity to training largely depends on the use of several educational methods by extension agents to reach farmers in Mezam division of Northwest province of Cameroon. Data were collected from May to August 2000 using Kerlinger’s n >= 30 sampling technique in the division since no definite sampling frame could be obtained. The result indicates that majority are males (62.5%); less than 40 years of age (68.6%), had formal education (81.3%), and can speak and write English language (56.3%). Farm visit is the most used teaching method (37.5%), while office calls (12.5%), group meetings (12.5%), and field days (6.3%) recorded low scores in the study area. The factor that was rated  as the most important in enhancing learning of the farmers was that extension agents should be knowledgeable in farming (87.5%). The agent being a farmer and educated (56.3% each) follows this, language came fourth on the importance list (50%).

Keywords: receptivity, education, teaching method, extension

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Mid-career extension graduates’ perceptions of the impact of a demand-driven, extension curriculum in Ghana

Author/s: Joseph A. Kwarteng and Samuel Akuamoah Boateng

Edition: Volume 52, Number 2, July 2012

Summary: One of the major challenges facing Africa today is ensuring that extension practitioners are well trained to enable them function effectively as facilitators of change at the farmers’ level. Continue reading “Mid-career extension graduates’ perceptions of the impact of a demand-driven, extension curriculum in Ghana”