Developing Human Capital Through Horticulture

Doyle, Orla; Kelleher, Y.; O'connor, Anthony

doi:10.17660/actahortic.2009.817.7

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“…Horticulturists must be much more astute at telling people why it is necessary that they should exist. The urbanised general public appreciates the end products of horticulture in the supermarkets, parks, historic gardens, botanic gardens and macro-landscapes but does not connect these with the people who make them possible (Doyle et al,2009). The International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) publication Harvesting the Sun (Hewett et al, 2012) makes the case very eloquently but this needs to be constantly repeated.…”

Section: Fitness-for-purposementioning

confidence: 99%

Making 21^stcentury European horticultural education fit-for-purpose

Dixon¹

2016

Acta Hortic.

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Europe's horticulture has developed over two and a half millennia and during most of that time has been a substantial agent for the generation of knowledge and its transmission between and within generations. This article describes the current educational context within which horticultural provision is now set. Horticultural education must fit into the overall picture for provision. Topics considered include: widening participation, modularisation, internationalism, vocational skills and education, practice-based learning, consolidation and rationalisation, user pays principle, distance learning and electronic delivery. Provisions in Europe for Further and Higher education and private-charity are examined. The implications of the image problem of horticulture is analysed and the overall lack of fitness-for-purpose of horticultural education examined.

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Section: Fitness-for-purposementioning

confidence: 99%