Towards a praxis of situation improving

Richard Bawden

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Abstract

The professional agriculturalist faces two, interdependent worlds of immense complexity. There is the 'natural' world of soils, plants and animals which the primary producer manipulates in order to produce quality foods and fibres. And there is the 'social' world of families, labour, markets and cultural mores which greatly influence the modes of production and the distribution of the outputs. The major career areas of graduate agriculturalists lie in those industries which provide services to the producers; both abstract, in the form of research findings and market intelligence, and concrete in the form of technologies. Whatever their niche, agriculturalists deal with issues that are complex and dynamic, and therefore their education should prepare them for that. In the vast majority of instances, it does not.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Challenge of Problem Based Learning
EditorsDavid Boud, Grahame Feletti
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherKogan Page
Pages308-314
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)749402490
Publication statusPublished - 1991

Keywords

  • agriculture
  • education, higher

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