Of reform and transformation : a case study in curriculum innovation

![CDATA[While there are certainly significant differences between agriculture and forestry as domains of human endeavour, they also share much in common. Both, after all, are concerned with the utilisation of land resources by purposeful human beings, occurring at what might be referred to as "the interface between people and their bio-physical environments". While each provides the basis for complex and dynamic commercial industries, they both must also concern themselves with meeting certain subsistence, recreational, and even spiritual needs of people in a host of different locations across the face of the earth. Both domains are best characterised as a range of different employment opportunities rather than as discrete professions, and thus neither presents a neat set of competencies required by those who would study to work within them as ‘practitioners’.]]