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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Challenge of Problem Based Learning |
Editors | David Boud, Grahame Feletti |
Place of Publication | U.K. |
Publisher | Kogan Page |
Pages | 308-314 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISBN (Print) | 749402490 |
Publication status | Published - 1991 |
Keywords
- agriculture
- education, higher