Curriculum for Agriculture Teachers by Agriculture Teachers: The Processing of Development Curricular Resources in Utah

摘要

In 1988 the Vocational Agriculture and Future Farmers of America community received a "call to action" through a report titled "Understanding Agriculture - New Directions for Education". The report was commissioned by the Governing Board of the National Research Council (NRC), whose members were recruited from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine. From the NRC, a Committee on Agricultural Education in Secondary Schools wascreated to lead the discussion on three topics identified as concerns for vocational agriculture and the FFA: declining enrollments, instructional content, and quality in agricultural education programs. The members of the committee came from universities, high schools, state departments of education, agricultural commodity groups and farm credit organizations. The members associated with education had primary responsibility in the local communities, universities and state departments of education as secondary education classroom teachers and FFA advisors, university professors with responsibility for preparing classroom teachers for vocational agriculture programs, and state level leadership for vocational agriculture and the FFA.