Different Approaches and Teaching Aids Being used in Agricultural Higher Education Singh O.P.1,,*, Prasad A.2, Chaubey P.N.3 1Assistant Manager, Bhumi Sudhar Nigam Ltd., Jaunpur, U.P. 2Deputy Director (Extension Education), Central Agricultural University, Imphal, Manipur 3Reader (Agri. Ext.), SMMTD College, Ballia, U.P. *Corresponding author email id: opsinghgorakhpur10@gmail.com
Abstract The term “Agricultural Education” has been referred as a collective term for all education in agriculture, encompassing plant and animal sciences, engineering, economics and others. If, ACT is fully exploited for educational system in our country, it may fulfill all the challenges and demand of educational needs of ever growing population. It is fact that ACT may not be at par with the printed literature, but it may reduce the consumption of paper and pressure on our forest resources at considerable extent and hand in hand, it may give a new dimension in the educational system of India. To know different approaches and teaching methods being used in agricultural higher education in Uttar Pradesh, a study was conducted during the year 2008–10. Altogether, 135 numbers of students studying in randomly selected two agricultural colleges in the state of Uttar Pradesh became the sample size for present study. Percentage, mean, standard deviation were reckoned with the collected data for drawing the results. It was found that lecture method with the use of chalk board and field visit were being used in teaching all the courses of six M.Sc. (Ag.) degree programmes of the two universities. As far as the percentage of course content where the audio cassette could be prepared or not were 73.19 and 26.81, respectively. In case of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Extension, 89 per cent topics were identified where audio cassettes can be prepared. Similarly, as far as the overall topics of the courses of three degree programme were concerned, the audio cassette preparation was found possible on 210 topics out of 250 which accounts for 84 per cent. Top Keywords Audio cassette, Course content, Education, Topics. Top |