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Download full textMyra Luz M. Homillano – Online Submission, 2023
Aims: The Central Bicol State University of Agriculture (CBSUA) takes responsibility and leadership in the Bicol region's agriculture and allied technological sciences field. This study determined the possibility of offering short-term courses in Organic Agriculture at the Central Bicol State University of Agriculture. Study Design: Descriptive…
Descriptors: Gardening, Food, Foreign Countries, Teachers
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Direct linkJabbour, Randa; Pellissier, Makenzie E. – Natural Sciences Education, 2019
Organic agriculture courses and degrees in higher education have become more common in recent decades. In this article, we characterized instructor priorities for organic agriculture education and identified critical concepts and skills to be included in curriculum. We used interviews and surveys to learn from 19 instructors from universities and…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Architecture, College Faculty, Skill Development
Dizikisa, Tülay; Keles, Pinar Ural – World Journal of Education, 2019
This study was carried out to determine the perceptions of pre-service classroom and science teachers related to the concept of organic agriculture. The sample of the study consisted of 85 pre-service teachers, 57 from the Department of Classroom Teaching and 28 from the Department of Science Teaching in Agri Ibrahim Çeçen University, in the…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers
Formiga, Alice K. – Journal of Extension, 2020
eOrganic, the Organic Agriculture Community of eXtension, has conducted webinars on organic farming research for over a decade. I examined questions asked by farmers and university researchers or educators during 52 webinars presented 2015-2017. A higher proportion of questions asked by farmers than questions asked by researchers/educators were…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Production, Extension Education, Researchers
Eugenio-Gozalbo, Marcia; Ramos-Truchero, Guadalupe; Suárez-López, Rafael – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: Gardens are being used at all educational stages, because they provide with a real-world context for active and experiential learning. In Spain, there exists a movement in favor of their incorporation to higher education for a variety of purposes but prevalently as an innovative resource to teach sciences to pre-service teachers. The…
Descriptors: Gardening, Horticulture, Foods Instruction, Nutrition Instruction
Migliorini, Paola; Wezel, Alexander; Veromann, Eve; Strassner, Carola; Srednicka-Tober, Dominika; Kahl, Johannes; Bügel, Susanne; Briz, Teresa; Kazimierczak, Renata; Brives, Hélène; Ploeger, Angelika; Gilles, Ute; Lüder, Vanessa; Schleicher-Deis, Olesa; Rastorgueva, Natalia; Tuccillo, Fabio; Talgre, Liina; Kaart, Tanel; Ismael, Diana; Rembialkowska, Ewa – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: To clarify needs and requests of the young generation to the contemporary and future education on food systems, this paper aims to examine the following issues: students' background knowledge, students' behaviour as consumers and food citizenship, most interesting topics of SFS for students and students' preferences and expectations in…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Expectation, Sustainable Development, Food
Campbell, Hugh; Rosin, Christopher – Journal of Rural Studies, 2011
This article uses the evolving understandings of commercial organic agriculture within two research programmes in New Zealand to address three problematic claims and associated framings that have underpinned analysis of the political economy of commercial organic agriculture. These three framings are: 1) that recent commercial developments in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agriculture, Sustainability, Commercialization
Yu, Shu-Mey; Yore, Larry D. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the quality, evolution, and position of university students' argumentation about organic agriculture over a 4-week argument-critique-argument e-learning experience embedded in a first year university biology course. The participants (N = 43) were classified into three groups based on their…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Persuasive Discourse, Electronic Learning
Österle, Nina; Koutsouris, Alex; Livieratos, Yannis; Kabourakis, Emmanuil – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2016
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to compare the extension services offered in the field of organic agriculture (OA) in Baden-Württemberg (BW), Germany and Crete, Greece. Design/methodology approach: 16 in-depth interviews, 10 in BW and 6 in Crete, were carried out with representatives of OA extension providers; interviews were qualitatively…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Education, Agricultural Education, Extension Agents
Garcia-Barriocanal, Elena; Sicilia, Miguel-Angel; Sanchez-Alonso, Salvador – Interactive Learning Environments, 2013
Sustainable or organic agriculture aims at harmonizing the efficient production of food with the preservation of the environmental conditions for continuing production in a sustained way. As such, it embodies a set of environmental values that are currently taught and learnt worldwide in specific courses or as part of broader programs or…
Descriptors: Semantics, Agricultural Education, Sustainability, Models
Goldberger, Jessica R. – Journal of Rural Studies, 2011
It is often assumed that organic farming is synonymous with sustainable agriculture. The broad goals of sustainable agriculture include economic profitability, environmental stewardship, and community vitality. However, the "question of sustainability" (Ikerd, 2008) can be asked of any type of farming, including organic production. One…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Sustainability, Citizen Participation, Agricultural Occupations
Guiné, Raquel; Costa, Daniela; Correia, Paula; Costa, Cristina; Correia, Helena; Castro, Moises; Guerra, Luis; Seeds, Catherine; Coll, Collette; Radics, Laszlo; Arslan, Meahmet; Soylu, Soner; Tothova, Monika; Toth, Peter; Basile, Salvatore – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to characterize the agricultural activities and past experiences in professional training in the context of mobile learning in different countries (Portugal, Spain, Slovakia, Hungary, UK, Italy and Turkey). Design/methodology/approach: For the survey, a questionnaire was prepared in English and Portuguese and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Agricultural Production, Food
Nelles, Wayne; Visetnoi, Supawan – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2016
Purpose: This paper discusses theoretical, policy and practical issues concerning the problem of "agrochemical dependency" in Thailand, including roles that public extension services play in advocacy or mitigation of agrochemical use. Methodology/Approach: Our research aimed to better understand department of agricultural extension…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Extension, Content Analysis, Interviews
Smit, Arnoud A. H.; Driessen, Peter P. J.; Glasbergen, Pieter – Rural Sociology, 2009
Organic agriculture is perceived as being more sustainable than conventional agriculture. However, while there is a growing interest in, and market for, organic products, large-scale conversion to organic agriculture is not taking place. Even though conversion from conventional to organic dairy production is not especially difficult in theory,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Policy Analysis, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
Beery, Moira; Adatia, Rachel; Segantin, Orsola; Skaer, Chantal-Fleur – Health Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to respond to food insecurity and environmental sustainability through school food gardens in Johannesburg, South Africa. Design/Methodology/Approach: Permaculture is a method of organic agriculture where the garden design maintains a stable and productive ecosystem, mimicking natural processes and thereby…
Descriptors: Gardening, Foreign Countries, Security (Psychology), Sustainable Development
