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Fernando Pablo Landini - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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How do Rural Extension agents learn? Argentine practitioners’ sources of learning and knowledge
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2020Co-Authors: Fernando Pablo LandiniAbstract:Purpose: Extension workers’ knowledge and competencies are fundamental to a successful practice. Most academic literature focuses on how to train Extension workers, but neglects how complex their l...
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Evaluation and impact of a reflective training process for Rural Extension agents
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2018Co-Authors: Fernando Pablo Landini, Walter Fernando BritesAbstract:Purpose: This article assesses a non-traditional training methodology for Extension agents, focused on the exchange of experiences among peers and the reflection on practice, with the aim of explor...
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Problemas de la extensión Rural en América Latina
Perfiles Latinoamericanos, 2016Co-Authors: Fernando Pablo LandiniAbstract:Aiming to identify the problems faced by Latin American Rural Extensionists, 589 practitioners that work in ten different countries were surveyed. The open questions were categorized follow - ing Grounded Theory. The differences between national samples were studied using chi-square. Fifteen problems are highlighted because of having been frequently mentioned including: diffi - culties in group or cooperative work, use of inappropriate technologies, and problems to sell the produce. It is fundamental to address these problems, to strengthen Rural Extensionists' training and to re-shape Rural Extension practices.
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Problemas enfrentados por Extensionistas rurais brasileiros e sua relação com suas concepções de extensão Rural
Ciência Rural, 2015Co-Authors: Fernando Pablo LandiniAbstract:In both, Latin America and Brazil, Rural Extension is recovering acknowledgment in the context of public policy. In this paper, the problems faced in their practice by a sample of Brazilian Rural Extensionists are described and how they relate to their conception of Rural Extension is analyzed. 52 Rural Extensionists of different Brazilian states were surveyed via email. It is concluded that (1) difficulties related to group or associate work among farmers are the most mentioned, (2) a diffusionist conception of Rural Extension tend to persist, even against the participatory and dialogical principles established by public policy and (3) Rural Extensionists have a limited self-critical attitude and tend to perceive the farmers as a problem.
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ARGENTINE Rural DEVELOPMENT AGENTS' EXPECTATIONS ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY AND ABOUT THE EMPLOYABILITY OF PSYCHOLOGISTS IN THE AREA OF Rural Extension
2012Co-Authors: Fernando Pablo LandiniAbstract:Many scholars have argued that Rural Extension and development processes need an inter disci plinary approach, one that includes contribu tions from different sciences, particularly social ones. In this context, social and community psychology have a great potential to address this topic. In spite of this potentiality, psychology has produced scarce useful contributions to Rural development and to Extension processes. Additionally, limited empiri
Shah Jahan Miah - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A methodology to allow Rural Extension professionals to build (with Don Kerr and John Gammack)
Expert Systems With Applications, 2009Co-Authors: Shah Jahan MiahAbstract:Expert systems (ES) development technology has been used to build Rural business applications in the past but these have usually been developed using traditional expert systems shells. This paper introduces a new architecture for the development of a design environment where the domain experts can build a knowledge base for target-specific ES for Rural business operators. The system allows Rural business operators to use their own knowledge in building their own, target-specific ES for tailored development to their own specific requirements. At this stage, this reusable design environment caters for the Australian dairy industry but in the long run we claim it will be useful for the other livestock based Rural industries such as beef cattle and sheep. This approach of developing target-specific ES contributes new knowledge in that it provides a new way of developing decision support by allowing human domain experts to develop relevant ES for different livestock farming business. An evolutionary prototyping approach was employed for initial development of a proof of concept example and as a method of outlining the solution environment. Multiple qualitative data collection methods were engaged to facilitate knowledge acquisition in the domain of milk protein enhancement for dairy operations. This paper also describes the generic development procedure used in this project. 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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a methodology to allow Rural Extension professionals to build target specific expert systems for australian Rural business operators
Expert Systems With Applications, 2009Co-Authors: Shah Jahan Miah, Donald Kerr, John G GammackAbstract:Expert systems (ES) development technology has been used to build Rural business applications in the past but these have usually been developed using traditional expert systems shells. This paper introduces a new architecture for the development of a design environment where the domain experts can build a knowledge base for target-specific ES for Rural business operators. The system allows Rural business operators to use their own knowledge in building their own, target-specific ES for tailored development to their own specific requirements. At this stage, this reusable design environment caters for the Australian dairy industry but in the long run we claim it will be useful for the other livestock based Rural industries such as beef cattle and sheep. This approach of developing target-specific ES contributes new knowledge in that it provides a new way of developing decision support by allowing human domain experts to develop relevant ES for different livestock farming business. An evolutionary prototyping approach was employed for initial development of a proof of concept example and as a method of outlining the solution environment. Multiple qualitative data collection methods were engaged to facilitate knowledge acquisition in the domain of milk protein enhancement for dairy operations. This paper also describes the generic development procedure used in this project.
Walter Fernando Brites - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Evaluation and impact of a reflective training process for Rural Extension agents
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2018Co-Authors: Fernando Pablo Landini, Walter Fernando BritesAbstract:Purpose: This article assesses a non-traditional training methodology for Extension agents, focused on the exchange of experiences among peers and the reflection on practice, with the aim of explor...
Luís Fernando Soares Zuin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the multiple perspectives in a dialogical continued education course on animal welfare accounts of a team of Extension agents and a manager and a cowboy from a Rural brazilian territory
Linguistics and Education, 2014Co-Authors: Luís Fernando Soares Zuin, Ana Gabriela Monzon, Poliana Bruno Zuin, Mateus Jose Rodrigues Paranhos Da Costa, Isadora Rustino Confessor De OliveiraAbstract:Abstract The objective of this article is to describe and analyze practices of a training course in animal welfare with a strong dialogical component, as offered by state Rural Extension agents to a manager and cowboy of a Rural Brazilian cattle ranch. This case study is part of a bigger research project financed by Brazil's National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) on dialogical communication, or dialogism, as an alternative approach to the predominant diffusion of innovations theory employed in teaching–learning processes in Rural Extension worldwide. This case study seeks to demonstrate that the dialogical course of rational management practices and animal welfare contributes significantly in the joint development of a more sustainable livestock production that is both less violent towards animals and addresses social constraints between the subjects involved in livestock production. Thus, dialogism significantly improves existing communication barriers inherent in society and the overall quality of life of the cowboys in their workplace.
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Decision-Making Paths in the Changing of Production Traditions in São Paulo, Brazil: The Growing Role of Dialogic Communication in Rural Extension
The Agricultural education magazine, 2012Co-Authors: Luís Fernando Soares Zuin, Poliana Brono Zuin, Ana Gabriela MonzonAbstract:When the guy comes and puts pressure on me I already don't trust him. " This natural suspiciousness towards outsiders, considered at times a cultural trait, is a common stand with Brazilian farmers who do not easily trust sellers of new technologies. Acquiring new technologies and consequently changing their productive traditions is an exercise that involves a long dialogical and pedagogical path that permeates a close relationship of partnership and trust. Historically, when Brazilian farmers acquired new technologies from research centers and public and private companies they did not have success. This has led the farmers to distrust the adoption of new technologies presently offered by Rural Extension bodies of Sao Paulo.A complex network of activities that have the objective of making a correct decision takes place when the farmer is faced with an offer of something new. These activities have a preponderant dialogic component found in the theoretical references of authors like Bakhtin (2003), Vigotsky (2001), and Freire (2006). That complex process of decision-making is more dramatic when we examine the reality of small-scale Brazilian agriculture that surrounds the big cities; such is the case of Sao Paulo, the focus of this investigation.We analyzed the paths taken in the decision-making processes of two small scale agriculture farmers from the Metropolitan Region of Campinas, Sao Paulo. The younger farmer is 22 years old, while the older one is 54. The younger one completed high school and the older farmer completed the third grade. They both have Rural properties of four hectares located nine miles from the central region. They produce persimmons, peaches , grapes, and guava. They also produce vegetables and raise chicken.The accounts told by these two producers are part of a bigger research project on the dialogical learning-teaching processes between state Extension workers and smallscale farmers. It was funded by the Sao Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP. When visiting these farmers in their homes they talk about how they have observed various failures related to the changes in the ways of production. This has left them reluctant to adopt new technologies when the offers come. According to their accounts the sales and offers of new products were way too frequent. At least once per month both of them were visited by sellers in their properties. These persistent sellers were mainly from agricultural input companies who tried to sell fertilizers and pesticides. One of the farmers affirmed that sellers were not prepared and just want to sell the products to gain a profit. The other farmer suffered a loss of about 25% of harvest last year due to the adoption of a pesticide. Although the vendor, directly or indirectly, caused the farmer a loss of production, he kept providing assistance to further his sale. As a result, this year the farmer says he will test the product again, however this time in only 100 persimmon trees instead of the 400 trees. He said he was unsure if the loss in production was fully attributed to the use of the product or if the frost common in the region at that time of year had something to do with it. Both farmers concurred in the amount of small tests they perform before changing completely their productive traditions that have been historically constructed.We observed a high dialogic component in their decision-making processes as they engaged in much dialogue with other individuals before making a decision to change their productive traditions and adopt new ways to produce. In search of knowing the dialogic paths taken from the time the farmers receive the visit of the vendor until they buy the product, and hence, change their ways of production, we observed similarities in the sources of information they trust including:* Extension workers from Rural Extension state agencies, usually Agronomists;* Extension workers from a Rural Farm Owners Association, usually Agronomists with whom they hold a relationship of trust for about 8 years;* Neighbors who also have farms in the region, these are rather informal, as when they meet to play soccer on Sundays;* Vendors of a commercial business who commercializes agricultural inputs and whom the farmers know from a long time ago in this service; and* Family members with whom they discuss about the knowledge and techniques historically constructed and the benefits new technologies can present in their productive processes. …
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A comunicação dialógica como fator determinante para os processos de ensino-aprendizagem que ocorrem na capacitação Rural: um estudo de caso em um órgão público de extensão localizado no interior do Estado de São Paulo
Ciência Rural, 2011Co-Authors: Luís Fernando Soares Zuin, Poliana Bruno Zuin, Miguel Alejandro Díaz ManriqueAbstract:The aim of this paper is to discuss ways or diversions that are being explored in the processes of training Rural Extension workers and farmers in some localities of Sao Paulo state. To this end, the research reported here examined the pedagogical practices, and communication processes that occur during the formative training of Extension workers and farmers, and between trainers and Extension workers. It was further identified the communication influence in the teaching and learning in order to rethink practices related to the teaching-learning process. To this end, the data collection method was the phenomenological case study. The data herald the need of continuous training with teachers so that effective changes can be made.
B. M Bauchi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Expanding Agricultural and Rural Extension Roles for Sustainable Extension Practice in Nigeria
Journal of Agricultural Extension, 2011Co-Authors: Shimayohol Daudu, B. M BauchiAbstract:The effect of globalization and the attendant privatization of the public sector of national economies of developing nations has profound effect on Extension service delivery. This paper reviews present concept and challenges of Extension and proposes future concerns of Extension service. It concludes that Extension educational service in Nigeria should be rendered as a hybrid of both public and private good. Public good Extension should include such roles as provision of knowledge, skills and experience to HIV/AIDS orphans and training of farmers on how to reduce labour shortage due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. On the other hand, Extension service must strive to expand its traditional concept to that of private good to achieve economic sustainability. The expanded scope could include marketing Extension, non-farm Rural micro enterprise development, service to farmers’ associations, technical Extension service and urban Extension. These services should be provided at a cost to ensure economic sustainability of Extension service delivery.
