Adults'Education and Agricultural Innovation: A Social Learning Approach

Social learning processes can be the basis of a method of agricultural innovation that involves expert and empirical knowledge. In this sense, the objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness and sustainability of an innovation process, understood as social learning, in a group of small farmers in the southern highlands of Peru. Innovative proposals and its permanence three years after the process finished were evaluated. It was observed that innovation processes generated are maintained over time; however, new innovations are not subsequently generated. We conclude that adult learning processes and innovation based on social learning are more effective and sustainable; however, the farmers internalization in innovation processes is given longer term.

Student-adult mentoring relationships : experiences from a Scottish school-based programme

Peer reviewed

Autonomy in the global era: Euro-regionalism and new policy spaces in education. ACES Working Papers, August 2010

Framed by a critical discussion of methodological nationalism, this paper explores the intersection of new and evolving regional, central state, and supranational education policy spaces through examples drawn from post-Franco Spain. This work is situated within the broader literature on the development of a European Education Policy Space, which aims to understand changing governance structures in European education (cf. Grek et al., 2009; Lawn & Lingard,2002; N6voa & Lawn, 2002). Using policy documents since 2000 and interview data, the paper first examines Spanish and regional (Catalan) education policy related to devolution, namely Catalonia's recently revised Statute of Autonomy. The paper then places devolution in Spain and Catalonia in a broader context of Euro-regionalism, which has deepened and legitimized regional autonomy. Together these shifts in educational governance and the development of new education policy spaces have promoted a concept of the multi-scalar, European "ideal citizen" (Engel & Ortloff, 2009). The last section presents an overview of the recent influx of immigrants into Catalonia and Spain, exploring whether and to what extent recent education policy promoting the "ideal citizen" has taken non-European immigrants into account.

The adult division in the church school,

"A page of helpful books" : p. 109-110.

Bibliography of bilingual materials for career/vocational education : a list of BESC library holdings /

Mode of access: Internet.

Composite evaluation report for occupational education in the State of Illinois.

Description based on: Fiscal year 1977; title from cover.

Development of procedures for assessing the impact of vocational education research and development on vocational education (Project IMPACT).

Funding agreement no.: R-31-20-X-0141-166.

Education for employment progress report.

Description based on: FY 1986; title from cover.

Final report to the Illinois General Assembly : addressing the educational and related needs of children and youths who are parents, expectant parents, or survivors of domestic or sexual violence to ensure their ability to stay in school, stay safe, and successfully complete their education.

"June 2010."

Five-year and annual State plan for vocational education in Illinois, FY 1978-FY 1982.

Mode of access: Internet.

Handbook for vocational education program planning /

Bibliography: p. 125-131.

Mealtime minutes : your link to the child and adult care food program.

Mode of access: Internet.

Sex discrimination and sex bias in vocational education : a model for positive awareness change /

Final report of a project carried out at Richland Community College, July 1979 to June 1980, and funded by the Research and Development Section of the Dept. of Adult, Vocational, and Technical Education in the Illinois Office of Education.

Standards for teacher education in agriculture : criteria for program evaluation /

"... produced through a joint effort of the Department of Adult, Vocational and Technical Information, Illinois State Board of Education and the Department of Vocational and Technical Information, University of Illinois, Urbana."

Three phase system for statewide evaluation of occupational education programs : team leader handbook.

Cover title.