Perceptions of Farmers, Students, and Faculty Regarding University-based Extension: A Case Study from EARTH University, Costa Rica

Dragon, Steffany L.; County, Hillsborough; Place, Nick T.

doi:10.5191/jiaee.2006.13305

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“…Recently, focus groups have been used in the study of international agriculture and extension to examine the attitudes and beliefs of persons in Mexico (Tuttle, 2007), Costa Rica (Dragon & Place, 2006), the U. S. Virgin Islands (Mwaijande, Miller, Wailes, & Peterson, 2009) and the United States (Benavente, Jayaratne, & Jones, 2009). The themes that emerge from focus groups may be the foundation for additional research.…”

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Exploring the Leadership Behaviors of Community Leaders

Walker¹,

Gray²

2010

JIAEE

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Understanding and addressing the leadership needs of communities is important to program development of Cooperative Extension. As an initial step in the development of an instrument that could measure the effectiveness of leadership development programs upon the leadership skills of community leaders, the researchers used data from focus groups and interviews to assess community leaders' practices and behaviors as related to Kouzes and Posner's framework (2007). The themes identified provide strong evidence of leadership practices and behaviors of community leaders. The findings suggest that the Kouzes and Posner's instrument, the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), can be modified to become an assessment tool for use with community group leaders.

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Exploring the Leadership Behaviors of Community Leaders

Walker¹,

Gray²

2010

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“…Seiler-Martinez, Murphrey, Wingenbach, and Lobardini (2018) used a formative approach to identify barriers to adoption of new practices in developing countries as a way for extension agents to inform their program development, specifically in Guatemala. Dragon and Place (2006) also used a formative approach to their evaluation of why farmers struggled with the adoption of Integrated Agricultural Systems in Costa Rica.…”

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Considering an Appreciative Approach to International Extension Evaluation

Lamm¹,

Lamm²

2018

JIAEE

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Programmatic evaluation has become a common practice in international extension education. Evaluation has primarily been used to report the outputs, outcomes and impacts of extension efforts. Sometimes an evaluation is done for formative reasons, to make programmatic improvements, and most often for summative reasons, as a justification for further funding. Depending upon the evaluator (or evaluative approach) the evaluation will include stakeholder input and focus on collecting data the stakeholder will ultimately use. Some have even gone so far as engaging in developmental evaluation which allows for ambiguity and changes in direction throughout the duration of an extension program. Despite the many ways the discipline evaluates, almost every evaluation takes a problem-solving approach where areas for improvement are identified. The purpose of this manuscript was to reflect upon past evaluation practice within the international extension literature and discuss the role appreciative evaluation can play as evaluation continues to inform international extension efforts.

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“…À partir d'enquêtes auprès d'agriculteurs, Santucci et al, 2002en Syrie ou Agunga et Igodan, 2007 aux États-Unis, caractérisent les dispositifs de conseil et proposent des évolutions pour mieux répondre aux attentes des agriculteurs. L'utilisation de panels (ou focus groups) permet une expression plus libre des producteurs pour évaluer un dispositif de conseil, comme le montrent Dragon et Place (2006) au Costa Rica.…”

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Agricultural extension and advisory research: A review of international literature

Faure¹,

Desjeux²,

Gasselin³

2011

Cahiers Agricultures

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Revue bibliographique sur les recherches menées dans le monde sur le conseil en agriculture Résumé Le conseil en agriculture est présenté comme étant d'importance stratégique pour les agriculteurs. Il est un moteur essentiel du processus d'innovation en agriculture. Cependant les évolutions des contextes nationaux et mondiaux dans lesquels s'inscrivent les exploitations agricoles engendrent de profonds changements dans l'orientation des dispositifs de conseil, leur organisation et leurs méthodes d'intervention. Bien que le thème du conseil agricole ait fait l'objet d'une multitude d'articles de recherche au cours des dernières décennies, peu d'études dressent un panorama des apports et des débats dans la littérature scientifique. Ce travail, fondé sur une ample revue de la littérature, couvre une période de dix ans. Il vise à caractériser les grandes thématiques de recherche liées au conseil agricole, ainsi que les principales équipes impliquées dans ces travaux. Les débats en cours, ainsi que les disciplines, les méthodes, les objets et les postures de recherche sont analysés autour de quatre grands thèmes : i) l'environnement et les arrangements institutionnels nécessaires pour assurer le fonctionnement d'un système de conseil ; ii) les compétences mobilisées dans le cadre du conseil ; iii) les démarches, les méthodes, les outils et le contenu du conseil ; iv) l'évaluation et les impacts des systèmes de conseil. Cette synthèse offre une large vision des travaux de recherche conduits dans la sphère scientifique internationale, et permet de mieux positionner de futures recherches à mener dans le domaine du conseil agricole.

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Perceptions of Farmers, Students, and Faculty Regarding University-based Extension: A Case Study from EARTH University, Costa Rica

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Exploring the Leadership Behaviors of Community Leaders

Exploring the Leadership Behaviors of Community Leaders

Considering an Appreciative Approach to International Extension Evaluation

Agricultural extension and advisory research: A review of international literature

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