Learning from the Research

摘要

Ary, Jacobs, Sorenson and Walker (2014) outline five sources of knowledge including experience, authority, deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, and the scientific approach. In the first chapter of their book they outline the pros and cons of each method as a source of knowledge. Too often high school agricultural education teachers rely on experience and authority to provide information for high school programs and fail to utilize the massive amount of information that has been generated by scientific inquiry. On the other hand college agricultural educators can fall into the trap of only sharing their research findings with their peers and never adapting the results to fit the needs of the high school teachers. This issue of The AgriculturalEducation Magazine is designed to allow researchers to share their findings in a format that high school teachers can utilize.