Educational role of the District Agriculturist. ...

• Main Author: McNaughton, Gordon Roy
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2011
• Subjects: Peace River
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0093351; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0093351

The educational aspect of the work of the District Agriculturist is not well defined. The problem was to develop a system of defining, measuring and portraying the educational work of agricultural extension that would be considerably more meaningful than present day attendance records, would relate quality to the quantity of work, would enable extensiveness of use of the extension service to be related to socio-economic characteristics of farmers and would enable the testing of the hypothesis that socioeconomic characteristics differ between extensive and nominal users of the service. The work of one District Agriculturist in the Peace River Extension District in Northern Alberta, Canada was studied for the period of one year, March 1968 to March 1969. All individual and group contacts were recorded and classified according to function of the contact, instructional level achieved, method employed and time involved. Two hundred farmers were interviewed regarding certain socioeconomic characteristics. A ...