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Dobbins, Catherine E.; Edgar, Don W.; Cox, Casandra K.; Edgar, Leslie D.; Graham, Donna L.; Perez, Amanda G. Philyaw – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2021
As interest in local food development and urban agriculture increases, the Cooperative Extension Service is challenged to serve local and urban food communities in Arkansas. Urban farmers in Arkansas have differing motivations for operation than those in production agriculture, so understanding agricultural county agents' perceptions of urban…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Extension Agents, Urban Areas, Agriculture
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Matt Benge; Jeff W. Howard – Journal of Youth Development, 2022
The 4-H Professional Research, Knowledge and Competencies (PRKC) is a professional development framework that can be used to identify competency gaps and training needs of 4-H professionals. The PRKC consists of 6 competency domains, 1 being access, equity, and opportunity (AEO). A tailored design method was used to gather data and sort the…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Extension Education, Extension Agents, Diversity Equity and Inclusion
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Harder, Amy; Narine, Lendel K.; Wells, Ondine – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2019
Determining strategies for success within the urban environment is necessary for Cooperative Extension to accomplish its mission, particularly given the large percentage of Americans who now reside in or near cities. Three levels of needs exist within a system such as Extension: primary user, service provider, and system resources. A needs…
Descriptors: Urban Extension, Counties, Needs, Strategic Planning
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Brittany Pinkerton; Christine L. Craddock – Journal of Youth Development, 2024
Culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) has been a widely utilized framework for educational practice and research (Ladson-Billings, 2014). It is built on the ethics of care, first established in consideration of education among Black youth (Ladson-Billings, 1995). However, applications of CRP to youth physical activity (PA) programs are largely…
Descriptors: School Community Programs, Preadolescents, Physical Activities, Culturally Relevant Education
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Young, Jeffery; Vavrina, Charles – Journal of Extension, 2014
Defining the success of Urban Extension units is sometimes challenging. For those Extension agents, specialists, administrators, and others who have worked to bring solid, research-based programming to urban communities, it is no surprise that working in these communities brings its own unique and sometimes difficult challenges. Kentucky's Urban…
Descriptors: Urban Extension, Barriers, Success, Conferences (Gatherings)
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Brandon, Dorothy P.; Tsamaase, Marea; Humphrey, Ronnie; Crenshaw, Kevin – Journal of Extension, 2018
Urbanization is causing a major shift in Extension's programming throughout the United States. We present results of a nontraditional urban program (the Parent-Child Reading Enhancement Program) that is being implemented by Alabama Cooperative Extension System's Urban Affairs and New Nontraditional Programs unit. Findings suggest that this…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Urban Extension, Parent Child Relationship, Family Literacy
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DuBois, Bryce; Allred, Shorna; Bunting-Howarth, Katherine; Sanderson, Eric W.; Giampieri, Mario – Journal of Extension, 2017
The Welikeia project and the corresponding free online tool Visionmaker. NYC focus on the historical landscape ecologies of New York City. This article provides a brief introduction to online participatory tools, describes the Visionmaker tool in detail, and offers suggested ways to use the tool for Extension professionals based in and outside New…
Descriptors: Ecology, Best Practices, Participative Decision Making, Urban Extension
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Elmer, Sarah R.; Harrison, Judy A.; da Silva, Vanessa R. – Journal of Extension, 2016
Using social media is an inexpensive, innovative approach to supplementing direct education provided by the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP). Focus group research was conducted with EFNEP paraprofessionals (n = 33) and participants (n = 39) to inform the development of a social media presence for the program. Although…
Descriptors: Social Media, Nutrition Instruction, Paraprofessional Personnel, Supplementary Education
Barajas, Heidi Lasley; Martin, Lauren – Metropolitan Universities, 2016
This article explores shared space at the University of Minnesota's Robert J. Jones Urban Research and Outreach Engagement Center (UROC), located four miles off campus in a community strong in assets, but facing inequality, disinvestment and racism. UROC's mission promotes university-community collaboration to solve critical urban challenges. We…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, School Community Programs, College Programs, Outreach Programs
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Brown, Nicholas R.; Kelsey, Kathleen D. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2013
In 2005, The National Council for Agricultural Education (NCAE) unveiled The Long Range Goal for Agricultural Education also known as 10 x 15. According to NCAE, the primary goal of 10 x 15 was to create 10,000 new agricultural education programs by 2015 that focused on an integrated model of classroom and laboratory instruction, experiential…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Case Studies, Program Development, Urban Extension
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Nelson-Smith, Kenyetta – Journal of Extension, 2011
With education failing nationwide and economic restraints affecting both rural and urban educational institutions, Extension should be taking a more aggressive stance instead of operating in what has now become the way of Extension and "collecting numbers." Why isn't Extension more visible in the urban populations that reside in our own backyards?…
Descriptors: Urban Population, Urban Education, Extension Education, Urban Extension
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Grossman, Julie; Sherard, Maximilian; Prohn, Seb M.; Bradley, Lucy; Goodell, L. Suzanne; Andrew, Katherine – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2012
Urban agriculture initiatives are on the rise, providing healthy food while teaching a land ethic to youth. In parallel, increasing numbers of university graduates are obtaining Extension work requiring the effective communication of science in a diverse, urban, low-income setting. This study evaluates a pilot service-learning program, the…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Extension Agents, Agriculture
Hilliard, Thomas – Center for an Urban Future, 2011
Even before the Great Recession prompted policymakers to take a closer look at public programs designed to help unemployed Americans re-enter the workforce it had long been clear that federal, state and local government workforce development programs have not always effectively prepared low-income individuals to obtain decent-paying jobs. Job…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Job Training, Educational Change, Local Government