Module 2B: Historical Antecedents of Extension Flashcards
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1800 BC MESOPOTAMIA
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- clay tablets
- watering crops and getting rid of rats
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1740 BC EGYPT
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- from slave prisoner to Pharaoh
- how to deal with drought
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800 BC CHINA
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- zhou dynasty
- crop rotation and drainage
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1850
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- extension education
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1867
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- university extension
- literary and social topics
- agricultural subject
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LORD HENRY BROUGHAM
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- Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1826)
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GREAT IRISH FAMINE
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- 1845-1851
- caused by potato blight
- deployment of practical instructors
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LEGACY OF UNITED STATES
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- agricultural societies
- farmers’ institutes
- land grant institution
- cooperative extension
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AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES
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- disseminate agricultural information
- chartered county and community basis
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FARMERS’ INSTITUTES
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- community meeting
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LAND GRAND INSTITUTION
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- land-grant university
- benefits of Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890
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COOPERATIVE EXTENSION
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- partnership between government, land-grant institutions, and people
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LEGAL ENACTMENTS
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- first morrill act
- hatch act
- second morrill act
- smith-lever act
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FIRST MORRILL ACT
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- 1862
- land grant college
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HATCH ACT
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- 1887
- agricultural experiment stations
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SECOND MORRILL ACT
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- 1890
- increased federal financial support to land-grant colleges
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SMITH-LEVER ACT
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- 1914
- us cooperative extension services
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FATHERS IN EXTENSION
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- James Stuart (university extension)
- John Paul Leagans (extension education)
- Seaman Knapp (field demonstration)
- Everett Rogers (diffusion of innovation)
- Niels Roling (agricultural knowledge systems)
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NECESSARY CONDITIONS FOR EXTENSION TO EVOLVE
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- information made available
- use of information
- legislative interference
- variety of antecedents
- incidence of critical situations