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Direct linkShumacher, Stephanie L.; Fuhrman, Nicholas E.; Duncan, Dennis W. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2012
As a discipline, environmental education (EE) has been criticized for lacking empirical evidence on the behavioral outcomes of its programs. While the behavioral outcomes of EE activities are often associated with the youth learner, teachers are one target audience of EE training programs who have received increasing attention with regards to…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Behavior Change, Private Schools, School Culture
Download full textOkiror, John James; Matsiko, Biryabaho Frank; Oonyu, Joseph – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2011
School systems in Africa are short of skills that link well with rural communities, yet arguments to vocationalize curricula remain mixed and school agriculture lacks the supervised practical component. This study, conducted in eight primary (elementary) schools in Uganda, sought to compare the learning achievement of pupils taught using…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Income, Focus Groups, Agricultural Education
Hess, Alexander J.; Trexler, Cary J. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2011
Modern agriculture poses ecological problems and opportunities, which defy simple democratic reform without an educated citizenry. Developing an educated citizenry can be accomplished by further developing agricultural literacy in elementary education. While benchmarks for agricultural literacy have been produced, relatively little attention has…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Schemata (Cognition), Agriculture, Urban Youth
Hess, Alexander J.; Trexler, Cary J. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2011
Agricultural literacy of K-12 students is a national priority for both scientific and agricultural education professional organizations. Development of curricula to address this priority has not been informed by research on what K-12 students understand about the agri-food system. While students' knowledge of food and fiber system facts have been…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Agricultural Education, Urban Youth, Semi Structured Interviews
Bellah, Kimberly A.; Dyer, James E. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to describe elementary teachers' attitudes and perceptions toward agriculture and its use as a context for teaching across the grade level content area standards. Further, this study sought to probe more deeply the stages of concern possessed by kindergarten through eighth grade teachers with respect to their use of…
Descriptors: State Standards, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Alignment (Education)
Wagler, Sarah; Rusk, Clinton P.; Blomeke, Christine R.; Richert, Brian T.; Latour, Mickey A.; Talbert, B. Allen – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to test an educational swine curriculum geared toward fifth grade classrooms to measure the change in students' knowledge about the pork industry, pork as a nutritious protein source, and the value of byproducts derived from pork production. Objectives of this study were to evaluate overall change in students'…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Industry, Curriculum, Grade 5
