ERIC Number: EJ1402994
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-1535-0584
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Cultivating a Constituency for Vocational Education in Agriculture: Michigan Agricultural College's Work
Lauzon, Glenn P.
American Educational History Journal, v50 n1-2 p101-122 2023
This case study examines the efforts of the Michigan Agricultural College (Michigan State University, hereafter MAC) to promote agricultural science and agricultural education. It promoted both, simultaneously, by collaborating with farmers' organizations to conduct agricultural education (extension) through, most notably, institutes, bulletins, and train tours of lecturers and demonstrations. Eventually, the college began hiring men to travel through rural communities giving lecture-demonstrations and forming clubs for mutual improvement. These activities created and supplied demand in rural communities for different ideas and forms of vocation-related education, including school-based agricultural education.
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Agricultural Education, Agriculture, Agricultural Colleges, Cooperation, Agricultural Occupations, Rural Areas, School Community Relationship
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Michigan
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