Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-s2hrs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-15T04:19:01.930Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Modifying Extension CRD Programs in Response to Agent-Identified Needs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Edmond E. Seay Jr.*
Affiliation:
Department of Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island
Get access

Extract

Debate over how one “does” Community Resource Development (CRD) extension undoubtedly dates back to the moment the field consisted of more than a single practitioner. And the debate goes on. Gratto recently outlined five roles the public policy educator can assume, ranging from one with a pure “process” orientation to one where the subject matter is everything. Another recent publication describes six approaches to community development.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

1/

The author wishes to acknowledge the cooperation of several of his co-workers on the Northeast Public Policy Education Committee. Special thanks are due Austin Bennett for providing a most insightful overview of program needs very early in the game. Finally, the penetrating comments on both the structure and content of several drafts of the paper by my chairman, Ronald Cummings are gratefully acknowledged.

References

1 Bennett, Austin E., Reflections on Community Development Education, Orono, ME, PICS, Univ. of Maine, 1969.Google Scholar
2 Cummings, Ronald G., Grigalunas, Thomas A., and Seay, Edmond E., “A Theoretical Framework for Rural Community Development - Note,” Can. J. Agr. Econ. (forthcoming)Google Scholar
3 Eldridge, Eber, “Community Resource and Human Development,” Am. J. Agr. Econ. 53: 828835, December, 1971.Google Scholar
4 Gratto, Charles P., “Public Policy Education–A Model with Emphasis on How,” in Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies - 1973, Chicago, IL, Farm Foundation, 1973, pp. 4049.Google Scholar
5 Long, Huey B., Anderson, Robert C., and Blubaugh, Jon A., eds., Approaches to Community Development, Iowa City, IA, National University Extension Association and the American College Testing Program, 1973.Google Scholar
6 Rural Development Research in the Northeast for the New Five Years - A Framework, Task Force Report to the Northeastern Regional Agricultural Research Planning Committee, Sept. 1973.Google Scholar
7 Seay, Edmond E., “A Resource Base Approach to Community Development Education,” J. Northeast Agr. Econ. Council, 2 (2): 112120, October, 1973.Google Scholar