A Study of Existing Pre-vocational Agriculture Programs in Iowa.

Autor/inn/en	Hansen, Barbara Ann; Miller, W. Wade
Titel	A Study of Existing Pre-vocational Agriculture Programs in Iowa.
Quelle	(1988), (45 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Agricultural Education; Career Education; Course Content; Course Organization; Educational Needs; Enrollment; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Prevocational Education; Student Recruitment; Teacher Characteristics; Iowa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Agriculture; Education; Landwirtschaftliche Ausbildung; Landwirtschaft; Ausbildung; Arbeitslehre; Kursprogramm; Course organisation; Kurskonzept; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Einschulung; Sekundarstufe I; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Enterprise education; Vorberufliche Bildung
Abstract	A study was conducted to determine what subject areas should be taught in a prevocational agriculture program, as perceived by instructors with existing prevocational programs. Following a review of literature that found only a few sources on prevocational agriculture programs, most of them guides for middle school curricula, a survey instrument was developed and mailed to 60 Iowa teachers of prevocational agriculture classes; 55 teachers returned the surveys. Analysis of the data revealed that the teachers averaged 10 years of teaching experience, had been teaching prevocational agriculture classes for about four years, and had about 46 students in each class. The most popular length of the prevocational agriculture classes was nine weeks, and the most popular year for the course was eighth grade. The teachers listed a variety of topics as useful to teach in the agriculture course, especially horticulture, animal science, Future Farmers of America activities, agribusiness, careers, agronomy, agricultural mechanics, agriculture awareness, construction, and farm management. The study found that offering a prevocational agriculture class did not increase enrollment in regular vocational agriculture programs. Based on the findings of the study, recommendations are made for a prevocational agriculture curriculum. The study instrument and a list of programs surveyed are appended. (KC)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC