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The Potential of Interpersonal Relationships among Subject Matter Specialists for the Performance of the Integration Function on Behalf of Clients: Missouri Agricultural Extension as a Case in Point.
Lionberger, Herbert F.; Cheng, Wei-Yaun – 1981
Responses of 127 agricultural specialists concerning their information seeking and interactive contacts within the Missouri Extension Service revealed an interpersonal communicative network among subject matter specialists with a potential for performing the integration (putting together) function on behalf of farmers. This occurred in an…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Personnel, Informal Organization, Information Dissemination
Linking Roles of Education Assistants in the Missouri Small Farm Family Program at the University Resource Subsystem Client Social System Interface.
Lionberger, Herbert F.; Wong, Tso Sang – 1979
Growing concern that the Cooperative Extension Service was failing to adequately reach small farmers with education materials through regular extension channels led to the implementation of Missouri's Small Farm Family Program. In this program, education assistants, many of whom are small farmers themselves, link the educational resources of the…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Agriculture, Attitudes, Change Agents
Performance of the Integration Function by Community Development Specialists in Missouri.
Lionberger, Herbert F.; Wong, Tso Sang – 1978
The integration role of community development agents and the social system in which they work was examined. Their personal capability to act as an integrating agent was inferred from the nature of the specialized training prescribed in the community development master degree program and their prior occupational experience. Operational…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Development, Educational Background, Extension Agents
Information Developer-User System Linking Roles of Education Assistants in the Missouri Small Farm Family Program. Research Bulletin No. 1042.
Lionberger, Herbert F.; Wong, Tso Sang – 1982
A 1977 study of education assistants' linking role in the University of Missouri's Small Farm Family Program (intended to favor small farmers in providing extension information) focused on conditions influencing ability of education assistants to serve as University information-user system linkers on behalf of small farmers. All Missouri education…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Change Strategies, College Faculty, College Role