The Object of Extension

Agricultural Education and Authentic Farmers in Pennsylvania

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4883542
AutoresAmy Trauger (0000-0002-3910-7855, University of Georgia, autor correspondente), C Sachs (0000-0002-7590-5109, Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, autor correspondente), Mary Barbercheck, Mary E Barbercheck (0000-0002-4097-8826, Pennsylvania State University, autor correspondente), Nancy Ellen Kiernan (0000-0002-6910-1542, Pennsylvania State University, autor correspondente), Kathy Brasier (Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, autor correspondente), Audrey Schwartzberg (Pennsylvania State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume50
Fascículo2
Páginas85-103
Data de publicação2010-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9523.2010.00507.x
OpenAlexW1489928945
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22
Referências citadas29

Cooperative extension, as an outreach mechanism of land grant universities in the USA, has long served the educational needs of rural and agricultural communities. The educational programming of extension, however, is generally divided into areas that reflect, reify and reinforce the gendered division of labour on farms in the USA. While it is well documented that extension inadequately serves women in providing knowledge about production practices in contemporary agriculture, the mechanisms by which women's access to knowledge is hindered are not well understood. Using Freire's ideas about authentic educational subjects we explore the social construction of authentic farming and educational programming in the cooperative extension system. Using interviews with extension educators at a large land grant university, this article describe how extension educators identify certain types of farmers and farming as authentic, while certain types of farms are seen as inauthentic. This belief feeds into the institutional discourse that the educational opportunities offered by extension are appropriate for all audiences of authentic farmers. We conclude by offering insights into how cooperative extension can reorient its programming toward the emerging cultural economies of agriculture in rural communities

Agricultural education · Agricultural extension · Agricultural productivity · Agriculture · Economic growth · Economics · Extension (predicate logic) · Geography · Object (grammar) · Outreach · Political science · Production (economics) · Public relations · Rural area · Sociology · Computer Science · Diverse Educational Innovations Studies · Rural development and sustainability · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development