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Editorial Introduction, Catherine F. Compton-Lilly Dec 2014

Editorial Introduction, Catherine F. Compton-Lilly

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

Welcome to Volume 16, Number 2 of Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research. I am happy to introduce you to another volume featuring the voices of educators. This issue includes articles that focus on talk in a grade three classroom, first year teachers in science classrooms, pre-service teacher development, action research in a special education classroom, dialogic interactions and reading, the project approach in kindergarten, as well as a short article on action research and first year faculty and a review of Critical Discourse Analysis in Education by Rebecca Rogers.

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Promoting Reflective Practices In Special Education Through Action Research: Recommendations From Preservice Teachers, Paula Wenner Conroy Dec 2014

Promoting Reflective Practices In Special Education Through Action Research: Recommendations From Preservice Teachers, Paula Wenner Conroy

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

In response to research showing the benefits of reflective practices, many personnel preparation programs have sought ways to help teachers-intraining (pre-service teachers) develop reflective practices in their teaching. This has been done by providing multiple opportunities for reflection and scaffolding within a variety of reflective experiences during extensive field and student teaching practicum experiences (Harford & MacRuairc, 2008). One powerful approach for integrating inquiry into teaching and reflection in practice is action research. The purpose of this article article is to provide a description of an effort by faculty to increase teacher reflection in the preparation program area of special …

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How Does Talk Around Reading Influence Comprehension In Third Grade?, Karen Gruhn Tomczak Dec 2014

How Does Talk Around Reading Influence Comprehension In Third Grade?, Karen Gruhn Tomczak

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

This study attempts to document the efficacy of peer-support and self-monitoring during partnered reading by third grade students as evidenced by their discourse. Pairs of third grade students engaged in partnered reading in a general education third grade classroom. Their oral reading, coaching and conversations were recorded using i-Pod2s over the course of twenty days. The digital audio recordings were then analyzed to determine if the students employed reading strategies, what types of reading strategies they used, and how other discourse between the students influenced reading behaviors.

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Roles Beyond Instruction: Facilitating The Development Of Preservice Teachers, Yvonne Franco Dec 2014

Roles Beyond Instruction: Facilitating The Development Of Preservice Teachers, Yvonne Franco

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

Identifying a Signature Pedagogy that ensures high-quality teacher preparation is essential to the field of teacher education, as inconsistencies across programs throughout our country threaten our profession. Drawing on a comprehensive study of the professions, Lee Shulman (2005) provides a lens from which to identify Signature Pedagogy and the underlying experiences that support it, as pedagogies of uncertainty, engagement, and formation. As a teacher-educator, this action research study examines my efforts in understanding how I can use my knowledge of Signature Pedagogy to design, implement and study practices that facilitate pre-service teachers’ conceptualization of the teacher’s role beyond instruction. Using …

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Critical Dialogues About The Reading Process With In-Service Teachers And Children, Koomi Kim, Maria Perpetua Liwanag, Violet Henderson, Peter Duckett Dec 2014

Critical Dialogues About The Reading Process With In-Service Teachers And Children, Koomi Kim, Maria Perpetua Liwanag, Violet Henderson, Peter Duckett

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

This article investigates how teacher educators and teachers collaborate via dialogic interactions to support the development of elementary students’ reading strategies. By implementing comprehension-centered reading tools such as the Burke reading interview and strategy rulers in partnership with in-service teachers, we are able to sustain ongoing inquiry and evaluation of effective literacy practices that enhance student learning.

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Action Research And Project Approach: Journey Of An Early Childhood Pre-Service Teacher And A Teacher Educator, Ellie Wastin, H. Sophia Han Dec 2014

Action Research And Project Approach: Journey Of An Early Childhood Pre-Service Teacher And A Teacher Educator, Ellie Wastin, H. Sophia Han

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

The purpose of this article is to share an action research study conducted by an early childhood pre-service teacher in a Kindergarten classroom. There were dual goals for this action research: (a) to enhance preservice teacher’s questioning and classroom management strategies, and (b) to enhance Kindergarten children’s scientific inquiry and knowledge. A teacher guided mini-project approach was adopted as a main instructional methodology for a ‘Rain and Water Cycle’ project. Using video, we documented self-reflection and feedback. Through this experience, the pre-service teacher gained both knowledge and confidence. At the same time, the Kindergarten children took an active role in …

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Action Research As First Year Faculty: Exploring The Path Less Taken, Emily A. Daniels, Maureen Squires Dec 2014

Action Research As First Year Faculty: Exploring The Path Less Taken, Emily A. Daniels, Maureen Squires

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

The integration of educational research and practice is essential if any genuine progress is to be achieved in addressing compelling, complex and significant issues in education (Pine, 2009, p. 3). As new faculty members, both authors came to the process of action research through collaboration. The path was a new one that we had previously not explored, one that emerged as we moved forward together. We started down this woody lane with ideas, hopes and flashlights to begin to clarify our work, our ideas, and the needs of our students. We also hoped to illuminate the way for other junior …

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Updating Critical Discourse Analysis In Education, Erica Newhouse Dec 2014

Updating Critical Discourse Analysis In Education, Erica Newhouse

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

The publication of the second edition of Rogers’ An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education is timely and relevant to the current social, political, and educational climate. Rogers’ text provides an in-depth introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA) in education, an understanding of how the education “crisis” has been constructed, and the possibilities for researchers to use this approach to interrupt these “naturalizations.” This edition reflects changes in the field with the addition of Gunther Kress’ multimodal social semiotic approach to discourse analysis, which opens new areas of investigation and critique.

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Shifting The Intellectual Authority In Science Classrooms From Teachers To Students: How Novice Teachers Use Tools To Analyze And Advance Practice, Jessica Thompson, Anna Kramer, Lindsay Carlson, Lindsay Holladay, Bethany Sjoberg Dec 2014

Shifting The Intellectual Authority In Science Classrooms From Teachers To Students: How Novice Teachers Use Tools To Analyze And Advance Practice, Jessica Thompson, Anna Kramer, Lindsay Carlson, Lindsay Holladay, Bethany Sjoberg

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

To meet the immense challenges our society faces in areas such as energy, health, and environmental protection, we, as science teachers and teacher educators, need to invest in the creation of classroom cultures that turn the intellectual heavy lifting over to the students while developing students’ identities as competent learners. Our vision is that classrooms are both intellectually rigorous—accountable to important ideas and practices in the discipline—and uncompromisingly responsive to students’ developing scientific ideas. Problematically, this type of teaching is currently rare in science classrooms (Corcoran & Gerry, 2011; Kane & Staiger, 2012; Pasley, 2002; Roth & Garnier, 2007; Weiss, …

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Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology. Vol. 26, No. 1, Kansas State University. Architecture Department Dec 2014

Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology. Vol. 26, No. 1, Kansas State University. Architecture Department

Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology

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Framing Visual Perception In Terms Of Sensorimotor Mapping, Silvano Zipoli Caiani Dec 2014

Framing Visual Perception In Terms Of Sensorimotor Mapping, Silvano Zipoli Caiani

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

Two contrasting theories, or variants of them, are predominant in the current debate on visual cognition. The standard inferential theory sees perception as a process involving the role of memory, past experiences and semantic abilities, whereas the direct theory sees perception as a connection between the perceiver and the environment that does not recruit internal information processing. In particular, the direct theory has recently been invoked because it would be able to explain the sensorimotor coupling of perception and action in humans and animals without relying on controversial notions such as those of conceptualization and propositional information. This paper aims …

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Talking About Causing Events, Christopher A. Vogel, Alexis Wellwood, Rachel Dudley, J. Brendan Ritchie Dec 2014

Talking About Causing Events, Christopher A. Vogel, Alexis Wellwood, Rachel Dudley, J. Brendan Ritchie

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

Questions about the nature of the relationship between language and extralinguistic cognition are old, but only recently has a new view emerged that allows for the systematic investigation of claims about linguistic structure, based on how it is understood or utilized outside of the language system. Our paper represents a case study for this interaction in the domain of event semantics. We adopt a transparency thesis about the relationship between linguistic structure and extralinguistic cognition, investigating whether different lexico-syntactic structures can differentially recruit the visual causal percept. A prominent analysis of causative verbs like move suggests reference to two distinct …

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How Do Ideas Become General In Their Signification?, Alexandros Tillas Dec 2014

How Do Ideas Become General In Their Signification?, Alexandros Tillas

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

Abstraction is one of the central notions in philosophy and cognitive science. Though its origins are often traced to Locke, various senses of abstraction have been developed in fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and computer science (e.g. Barsalou 2005). The notion of abstraction on which I am focusing here is as that of a process of similarities recognition across instances of a given kind involving progressive exclusion of instance details. As such, abstraction plays a major role in concept-formation and learning. Traditionally, abstraction models have been deemed circular (e.g. Berkeley 1710/1957), while in recent years …

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Nonconceptual Content, Causal Theory, And Realism, Błażej Skrzypulec Dec 2014

Nonconceptual Content, Causal Theory, And Realism, Błażej Skrzypulec

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

In this paper the connections between the nonconceptual content of perceptual states and realism are considered. In particular, I investigate the argument for realism that uses the notion of nonconceptual content, specifically the version proposed by Raftopoulos in Cognition and Perception. To evaluate the argument two forms of realism are identified: (1) correlation realism (CR), according to which distinctions in perceptual content correlate with distinctions in the environment, and (2) ontological realism (OR), according to which perceptual content and perceived reality are both organized according to the same set of ontological categories. First, it is argued that the distinction …

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Concept Acquisition And Experiential Change, William S. Robinson Dec 2014

Concept Acquisition And Experiential Change, William S. Robinson

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

Many have held the Acquisition of Concepts Thesis (ACT) that concept acquisition can change perceptual experience. This paper explains the close relation of ACT to ADT, the thesis that acquisition of dispositions to quickly and reliably recognize a kind of thing can change perceptual experience. It then states a highly developed argument given by Siegel (2010) which, if successful, would offer strong support for ADT and indirect support for ACT. Examination of this argument, however, reveals difficulties that undermine its promise. Distinctions made in this examination help to clarify an alternative view that denies ADT and ACT while accepting that …

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An Empirical Analysis Of Perceptual Judgments, Nicholas Ray Dec 2014

An Empirical Analysis Of Perceptual Judgments, Nicholas Ray

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

This paper is a defense of Reformed Empiricism, especially against those critics who take Reformed Empiricism to be a viable account of empirical rationality only if it avails itself of certain rationalist assumptions that are inconsistent with empiricism. I argue against three broad types of criticism that are found in the current literature, and propose a way of characterising Gupta’s constraints for any model of experience as analytic of empiricism itself, avoiding the charge by some (e.g. McDowell, Berker, and Schafer) who think that the constraints are substantive.

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The Role Of Motor Affordances In Visual Working Memory, Diane Pecher Dec 2014

The Role Of Motor Affordances In Visual Working Memory, Diane Pecher

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

Motor affordances are important for object knowledge. Semantic tasks on visual objects often show interactions with motor actions. Prior neuro-imaging studies suggested that motor affordances also play a role in visual working memory for objects. When participants remembered manipulable objects (e.g., hammer) greater premotor cortex activation was observed than when they remembered non-manipulable objects (e.g., polar bear). In the present study participants held object pictures in working memory while performing concurrent tasks such as articulation of nonsense syllables and performing hand movements. Although concurrent tasks did interfere with working memory performance, in none of the experiments did we find any …

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Whorfian Effects In Color Perception: Deep Or Shallow?, Elisabetta Lalumera Dec 2014

Whorfian Effects In Color Perception: Deep Or Shallow?, Elisabetta Lalumera

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

This paper discusses, from the point of view of the philosophy of psychology, recent behavioral and brain studies showing effects of the diversity of language vocabulary on color perception. I examine the alternative between two different interpretations of these so-called whorfian effects, namely habitual or deep whorfianism, and shallow whorfianism. I argue that at the moment the evidence underdetermines both interpretations and the question is open. I also clarify that shallow whorfianism is not a synonym for ‘trivial whorfianism’, as some authors have suggested, but rather makes a case for the online and situated nature of human cognition.

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Problems For The Purported Cognitive Penetration Of Perceptual Color Experience And Macpherson’S Proposed Mechanism, Steven Gross, Thitaporn Chaisilprungraung, Elizabeth Kaplan, Jorge Aurelio Menendez, Jonathan Flombaum Dec 2014

Problems For The Purported Cognitive Penetration Of Perceptual Color Experience And Macpherson’S Proposed Mechanism, Steven Gross, Thitaporn Chaisilprungraung, Elizabeth Kaplan, Jorge Aurelio Menendez, Jonathan Flombaum

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

Fiona Macpherson (2012) argues that various experimental results provide strong evidence in favor of the cognitive penetration of perceptual color experience. Moreover, she proposes a mechanism for how such cognitive penetration occurs. We argue, first, that the results on which Macpherson relies do not provide strong grounds for her claim of cognitive penetrability; and, second, that, if the results do reflect cognitive penetrability, then time-course considerations raise worries for her proposed mechanism. We base our arguments in part on several of our own experiments, reported herein.

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Concepts, Perception And The Dual Process Theories Of Mind, Marcello Frixione, Antonio Lieto Dec 2014

Concepts, Perception And The Dual Process Theories Of Mind, Marcello Frixione, Antonio Lieto

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

In this article we argue that the problem of the relationships between concepts and perception in cognitive science is blurred by the fact that the very notion of concept is rather confused. Since it is not always clear exactly what concepts are, it is not easy to say, for example, whether and in what measure concept possession involves entertaining and manipulating perceptual representations, whether concepts are entirely different from perceptual representations, and so on. As a paradigmatic example of this state of affairs, we will start by taking into consideration the distinction between conceptual and nonconceptual content. The analysis of …

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Linguistic Intuitions And Cognitive Penetrability, Michael Devitt Dec 2014

Linguistic Intuitions And Cognitive Penetrability, Michael Devitt

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

Metalinguistic intuitions play a very large evidential role in both linguistics and philosophy. Linguists think that these intuitions are products of underlying linguistic competence. I call this view “the voice of competence” (“VoC”). Although many philosophers seem to think that metalinguistic intuitions are a priori many may implicitly hold the more scientifically respectable VoC. According to VoC, I argue, these intuitions can be cognitively penetrated by the central processor. But, I have argued elsewhere, VoC is false. Instead, we should hold “the modest explanation” (“ME”) according to which these intuitions are fairly unreflective empirical theory-laden central-processor responses to phenomena. On …

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Is Low-Level Visual Experience Cognitively Penetrable?, Dávid Bitter Dec 2014

Is Low-Level Visual Experience Cognitively Penetrable?, Dávid Bitter

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

Philosophers and psychologists alike have argued recently that relatively abstract beliefs or cognitive categories like those regarding race can influence the perceptual experience of relatively low-level visual features like color or lightness. Some of the proposed best empirical evidence for this claim comes from a series of experiments in which White faces were consistently judged as lighter than equiluminant Black faces, even for racially ambiguous faces that were labeled ‘White’ as opposed to ‘Black’ (Levin and Banaji 2006). The latter result is considered especially indicative of cognitive penetration, based on the reasoning that the relevant distortions were a function of …

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Grounding Naïve Physics And Optics In Perception, Ivana Bianchi, Ugo Savardi Dec 2014

Grounding Naïve Physics And Optics In Perception, Ivana Bianchi, Ugo Savardi

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

Many adults hold mistaken beliefs concerning the behavior of mechanical motion and reflections. In the field of psychology this has been investigated in the areas of naïve physics and naïve optics. The interesting question regards where these false beliefs come from. Particularly thought-provoking is the case of errors which are at odds not only with (presumably or even actually) known physical/optical concepts, but also with what people would actually perceive. Some errors are in fact consistent with what people see in ecological conditions while others apparently are not. This has led to the former being referred to as perceptual errors …

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Editors' Introduction, Edouard Machery, Jesse Prinz Dec 2014

Editors' Introduction, Edouard Machery, Jesse Prinz

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

The relation between concepts and perception has been a central issue in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science for a few decades, and it has recently been rejuvenated by research on concept empiricism and on cognitive penetration. Research on the relation between concepts and perception in philosophy and in the cognitive sciences focuses on several distinct issues.

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Knowledge And Perceptions Of Agricultural Communications Pilot Curriculum In Arkansas Secondary Agricultural Classrooms, Carley Calico, Leslie D. Edgar, Don W. Edgar, Don M. Johnson Dec 2014

Knowledge And Perceptions Of Agricultural Communications Pilot Curriculum In Arkansas Secondary Agricultural Classrooms, Carley Calico, Leslie D. Edgar, Don W. Edgar, Don M. Johnson

Journal of Applied Communications

The purpose of this mixed-method study was to assess the effectiveness of agricultural communications curriculum developed and incorporated into a semester-long agricultural leadership and communications course for secondary agricultural education programs in Arkansas. Students (N = 297) participated in newly developed instructional modules addressing four categories of agriculture-themed curricula predetermined by a committee of agricultural education and communications faculty at the University of Arkansas (careers, writing, design, and multimedia). Student agricultural communications knowledge change was assessed using pre- and post-test instruments in each module of study. Additionally, content analysis of participating teachers’ journals was used to identify emergent themes related …

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Productive Pinning: A Quantitative Content Analysis Determining The Use Of Pinterest By Agricultural Businesses And Organizations, Jessie Topp, Scott Stebner, Lana A. Barkman, Lauri M. Baker Dec 2014

Productive Pinning: A Quantitative Content Analysis Determining The Use Of Pinterest By Agricultural Businesses And Organizations, Jessie Topp, Scott Stebner, Lana A. Barkman, Lauri M. Baker

Journal of Applied Communications

In recent years social media sites have experienced rapid growth among users, specifically the image-based site Pinterest. The purpose of this study was to investigate how agricultural producers and businesses were using Pinterest. A sample of 428 Pinterest users were evaluated using a quantitative content analysis to determine basic information about how Pinterest was used and the presence of four possession rituals: personalizing, claiming, sharing, and storing and hoarding. The research objectives of this study included (1) determining the number of businesses and organizations using Pinterest, (2) identifying what possession rituals are most prominently utilized by agribusinesses and agricultural organizations …

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The Critical Target Audience: Communicating Water Conservation Behaviors To Critical Thinking Styles, Laura M. Gorham, Alexa J. Lamm, Joy N. Rumble Dec 2014

The Critical Target Audience: Communicating Water Conservation Behaviors To Critical Thinking Styles, Laura M. Gorham, Alexa J. Lamm, Joy N. Rumble

Journal of Applied Communications

Although water covers approximately 70% of the planet, only a fraction is fresh water, and even less is used as a major source of drinking water. With the continuous increase in the amount of water used in modern standards of living, the quantity of water available is decreasing. The public is beginning to understand water needs to be conserved and they must play a role in water conservation. While previous literature examined how the majority of messages were catered toward the cost-effectiveness of conserving water, this study proposed how using a specific audience attribute could affect behaviors. The purpose of …

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College Students' Perceptions Regarding Sensory Aspects Of Conventionally Produced And Unconventionally Produced Foods: Implications For Marketing To The Millennial Generation, Christina M. Crowder, Catherine W. Shoulders, K. Jill Rucker Dec 2014

College Students' Perceptions Regarding Sensory Aspects Of Conventionally Produced And Unconventionally Produced Foods: Implications For Marketing To The Millennial Generation, Christina M. Crowder, Catherine W. Shoulders, K. Jill Rucker

Journal of Applied Communications

Every day consumers vote which products line the shelves of grocery stores, co-ops, and niche markets by use of their dollars. Public unrest with regard to the environment, animal welfare, food purity, and human health impacts of agricultural production practices have led to the rise of alternatively produced food products. While the sales of alternatively produced foods are increasing, studies regarding the qualities of such products impact consumer purchases have yielded inconsistent results. This study examined students’ perceptions of sensory aspects of conventionally produced and alternatively produced foods to better understand how sensory aspects impact decisions to purchase. Students reported …

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The New Extensionist: Roles And Cap Acities To Strengthen Extension And Advisory Services, Kristen Davis, Rasheed Sulaiman V. Dec 2014

The New Extensionist: Roles And Cap Acities To Strengthen Extension And Advisory Services, Kristen Davis, Rasheed Sulaiman V.

Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education

Extension and advisory services (EAS) perform an important role in agricultural development and help reduce hunger and poverty. Development efforts are increasingly complicated because of challenges such as natural resource depletion and climate change. Agricultural development frameworks have moved from a linear to a more complex systems perspective. Many scholars today use the agricultural innovation systems (AIS) framework as a conceptual model. This framework has three basic elements: all of the actors in the system that brings about agricultural innovation, their interactions, and the institutions and policies governing their interactions. Taking this approach while dealing with the challenges of development …

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Envisioning The Future Of Extension And Advisory Services In The Caribbean, Wayne G. Ganpat, Nichole Webster, Lendel K. Narine Dec 2014

Envisioning The Future Of Extension And Advisory Services In The Caribbean, Wayne G. Ganpat, Nichole Webster, Lendel K. Narine

Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education

Recent efforts have begun to renew collaborative relationships between actors leading extension systems throughout the Caribbean Community. Successful collaborations are built upon a shared vision. This study was conducted to determine the degree to which a shared future vision for extension and advisory services (EAS) existed within CARICOM countries. A qualitative approach was used to investigate the perceptions of EAS directors from nine CARICOM countries. Similar concerns about the future relevance of EAS were expressed. More diversity existed when considering primary stakeholders and delivery methods. The formal adoption of a shared vision for the region and creation of supportive policies …

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