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In this thesis the author has conscientiously attempted to portray in clear fashion the status of all V.P.I. graduates, post graduates, and those qualified to teach in vocational agriculture since 1918. The material collected, it is hoped, will serve as a source of information for professors at V.P.I. who have to do with guidance and placement. Furthermore, it is expected that the information contained herein, will show certain pertinent facts concerning the department of vocational education in question. Is the department efficient? Do its graduates secure jobs? Are salaries commensurate with time spent in securing degrees? Does the higher degree have any significance so far as increase in salary or steps in advancement are concerned? Have the V.P.I. graduates obtained positions of unusual responsibility and honor? Has service rendered by these graduates been hit or miss, or has it been constructive and definite over a long period of time? What has been the percentage of V.P.I. agricultural men who have entered occupations allied to farming? Are there any facts which indicate success n these allied occupations? Such questions as the above, and others, are answered in this thesis. In attempting to collect the information mentioned above the author has made use of the Alumni Office files; the records in offices of the various supervisors of Agricultural Education - Dr. W.S. Newman, State Board of Education, Richmond, Va.; Mr. D.J. Howard, Assistant State Supervisor, Winchester, Va.; Mr. T.V. Downing, District Supervisor, Ivor, Va.; Mr. J.O. Hoge, District Supervisor, Blacksburg, Va.; Mr. F.B. Cale, District Supervisor, Appomattox, Va.; department files; Alumni files; Registrar's office; Cormier's thesis and questionnaires. Grateful acknowledgment is made to these men as well as to Professors E.C. Magill, H.C. Groseclose, H.W. Sanders, and other school officials who have rendered valuable assistance in the arduous task of preparing this thesis. / Master of Science

Thesis (M. Tech. Agriculture) -- Central University of Technology, Free state, 2012 / Small-scale and subsistence farmers in general lack knowledge and information as a result of limited personal contact at grassroots level with extension workers. Therefore, the formation of farmer groups needs to be encouraged in most rural areas as tools of extension delivery. The value of farmer groups for quality decision making and generating of new ideas is well known, and therefore, the use of group contact may accelerate capacity building and empowerment to subsistence farmers. The problem under investigation is the effectiveness of farmer groups as tools of extension delivery in Makhuduthamaga in Sekhukhune District. The investigation seeks to establish the factors that influence the effectiveness of the farmer group in Makhuduthamaga local municipality. This study was conducted in the Makhuduthamaga local municipality in Sekhukhune District. Data was gathered through two questionnaires, one for farmers and one for extension workers. The study applied quantitative methodology, cluster sampling and non-probability sampling methods, and used field interviews with structured questionnaires. The study found that there are many stakeholders involved in the formation of farmer groups, such as NGOs, social welfare and extension workers, and the initiation by the different stakeholders has an influence on the development of the groups. Most of the farmer groups were initiated by NGOs, the reason being the financial support offered. The effectiveness of the selected farmer groups on Makhuduthamaga municipality is influenced by group dynamic factors. These factors include group size and gender composition, updating of the constitution, and the frequency of group meetings. The respondents highlighted the fact that there is a poor relationship within the groups, poor leadership, misuse of funds, lack of knowledge and division in the groups. There is a culture of not believing and/or not trusting the local people, and it is difficult to disclose information. The number of extension workers is still small in relation to the size of the farming population to be served. Stakeholders will learn from the study that the formation of farmer groups should serve the interests of the farmers, not of the institutions. The training institutions should base the training of extension workers on the needs of the farmers. The farmers should strive for self-reliance in order to sustain their farming enterprises. Extension workers should be formally trained on group dynamics, because agriculture in rural areas is about people working together. Government should minimise the top down approach and institutionalise the participatory extension approach methodology.

Text in Afrikaans / Die doel van die onderhawige studie is onder meer om loopbaanorientering aan die tersiere student (BSc Agric) teoreties te fundeer. 'n Uitgebreide Europese studiereis is ondemeem met die doel om bestaande loopbaanorienteringsprogramme aan tersiere instansies, veral universiteite, te ondersoek en die effektiwiteit daarvan te evalueer ten einde voortreflikhede te implementeer. In hierdie studie word die loopbaanorienteringsprogram vir BSc (Agric)studente aan die Universiteit van Pretoria wat reeds in 1994 ontwerp en ge'implementeer is, beskryf sowel as die behoeftepeiling wat onder BSc (Agric)-studente (voor en na die implementering van die program), en vennote in die landboubedryf gedoen is. 'n Verdere doel met die studie is om 'n wetenskaplik verantwoorde loopbaanorienteringsverrykingsprogram vir BSc (Agric)-studente aan die Universiteit van Pretoria te begrond, te ontwerp, die implementering daarvan te beskryf en die resultate daarvan te evalueer. Daar is gepoog om beide loopbaanontwikkelings- en studente-ontwikkelingsteoriee te beskryf en uit te le as fundering vir 'n verantwoorde loopbaanorienteringsverrykingsprogram vir tersiere studente. 'n Oorsig en perspektief is gebied op bestaande loopbaanorienteringsprogramme en -inisiatiewe in 'n intemasionale, nasionale en plaaslike konteks. Die verskynsel van die snelveranderende wereld-van-werk is literatuurmatig gepresiseer en die implikasies uitgewys vir die opleiding van en loopbaanorientering aan die student in die Landbouwetenskap. 'n Behoeftepeiling van loopbaan (en lewens-)kundighedeen vaardighede waaroor graduandi moet beskik is gedoen onder BSc (Agric)-studente (v66r en mi programimplementering) en onder vennote in die landboubedryf. Die ontwikkeling, beslaggewing en ,evaluering van 'n loopbaanorienteringsverrykingsprogram vir BSc (Agric)-studente is beskryf en toegelig. 'n Samevatting van die studie is gegee met enkele gemotiveerde aanbevelings wat uit die navorsing voortvloei. Voorstelle is gemaak vir die inisiering van 'n loopbaansentrum vir studente van die Universiteit van Pretoria. / The aim of this study is amongst others to lay the theoretical foundation of career orientation for BSc (Agric)-students. An extensive European study tour was undertaken with the aim of investigating and evaluating existing career orientation programmes and/or student enrichment endeavours at the various tertiary institutions especially universities. The effectiveness of these programmes was evaluated with the aim of utilizing and implementing aspects of them. In this study the career orientation enrichment programme for BSc (Agric)-students that was already designed and implemented at the University of Pretoria in 1994, is described. The needs of the BSc (Agric)-students before and after the implementation of this programme were determined as well as those of the partners in the agricultural industry. Another aim of this study is to describe the foundation, design and implementation of a scientific, accountable career orientation enrichment programme for BSc (Agric)-students at the University of Pretoria and to evaluate the outcome thereof. The various career development and student development theories are elucidated and described as a foundation for an accountable career orientation enrichment programme for tertiary students. An overview is given of career orientation programmes and initiatives in an international, national and local context. The phenomenon of the fast changing world-ofwork is described and defined more precisely through a literature study with reference to the implications for the training of and career orientation regarding the student in the Science of Agriculture. An investigation was done of the career (and life-) skills that graduates have to attain. The needs and views of BSc (Agric)-students (before and after the programme implementation) and partners in the agricultural industry were extracted. A summary is given of the arguments put forward in this thesis together with some recommendations that have emerged from this research. Proposals are made for the initiation of a career centre for students at the University of Pretoria. / Psychology of Education / D. Ed. (Sielkundige Opvoedkunde)

Submitted by Celso Magalhaes (celsomagalhaes@ufrrj.br) on 2017-05-16T11:22:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012- Rosangela Lima de Neves Rodrigues.pdf: 4944436 bytes, checksum: d9ae12178af6069cf113e59ea496eb04 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-16T11:22:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2012- Rosangela Lima de Neves Rodrigues.pdf: 4944436 bytes, checksum: d9ae12178af6069cf113e59ea496eb04 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04-02 / Este estudo vincula-se ? Hist?ria da Educa??o Brasileira, no ?mbito da Hist?ria das Institui??es Educacionais. Tem por objeto de estudo a trajet?ria e constru??o identit?ria do Instituto Federal de Educa??o, Ci?ncia e Tecnologia Baiano- Campus Santa In?s (IF Baiano CSI), l?cus da pesquisa. O objetivo geral ? explicitar o processo de constru??o identit?ria com vista a firmar o referencial identit?rio da institui??o, desde sua cria??o em 1993 como Escola Agrot?cnica Federal de Santa In?s (EAFSI), at? a recente reforma implantada pela Lei 11.892/08. Utilizamos a abordagem qualitativa, a metodologia interativa adaptada da t?cnica do c?rculo hermen?utico dial?tico (CHD) de Egon Guba e Ivonna Lincoln, (1989) que consiste em um processo de constru??o e reconstru??o da realidade, fundamentada no di?logo entre os participantes e na an?lise hermen?utica-dial?tica (AHD) de Maria Cec?lia de Souza Minayo (1996), que complementa o CHD, aprofundando a an?lise de dados coletados e tendo o referencial te?rico para nortear o processo e apreender o sentido da fala do autor no contexto hist?rico-cultural.Para a coleta de dados sobre a constru??o identit?ria da institui??o fez-se an?lise bibliogr?fica e documental sob um enfoque cr?tico e interpretativo, a fim de definir as categoriais te?ricas e emp?ricas. Foram realizadas entrevistas com os diversos atores sociais (Ex-diretores, docentes, t?cnicos, ex-alunos e pais), envolvidos com o objeto de estudo. Os depoimentos nos ajudam a compreender as rela??es sociais existentes entre os diversos sujeitos e os fatores que atuam no sistema educacional. Ap?s an?lise bibliogr?fica e documental, foram definidas as categorias te?ricas, que s?o tr?s: materialidade, representa??o e apropria??o. Buscou-se, ent?o, trilhar os quinze anos de exist?ncia do IF Baiano ? CSI, considerando sua trajet?ria como resultado de aspectos relacionados ao sistema pol?tico, aos valores atribu?dos ? institui??o educacional pela comunidade e ? forma como o sistema econ?mico interfere na organiza??o e desenvolvimento do sistema de ensino e na educa??o agr?cola brasileira, atrav?s de determinantes legais que n?o consideram as institui??es educacionais como ?rg?os distribu?dos em diferentes localidades do territ?rio nacional e que, por isso, s?o social e culturalmente diversas, provocando uma fluidez cont?nua, aligeirada, conflituosa entre seus elementos constituintes. O desencontro entre essas determinantes legais e a institui??o impede, pois, uma constru??o identit?ria planejada, positiva e dificulta que esta atenda aos interesses sociais e at? mesmo do capital / Este estudo vincula-se ? Hist?ria da Educa??o Brasileira, no ?mbito da Hist?ria das Institui??es Educacionais. Tem por objeto de estudo a trajet?ria e constru??o identit?ria do Instituto Federal de Educa??o, Ci?ncia e Tecnologia Baiano- Campus Santa In?s (IF Baiano CSI), l?cus da pesquisa. O objetivo geral ? explicitar o processo de constru??o identit?ria com vista a firmar o referencial identit?rio da institui??o, desde sua cria??o em 1993 como Escola Agrot?cnica Federal de Santa In?s (EAFSI), at? a recente reforma implantada pela Lei 11.892/08. Utilizamos a abordagem qualitativa, a metodologia interativa adaptada da t?cnica do c?rculo hermen?utico dial?tico (CHD) de Egon Guba e Ivonna Lincoln, (1989) que consiste em um processo de constru??o e reconstru??o da realidade, fundamentada no di?logo entre os participantes e na an?lise hermen?utica-dial?tica (AHD) de Maria Cec?lia de Souza Minayo (1996), que complementa o CHD, aprofundando a an?lise de dados coletados e tendo o referencial te?rico para nortear o processo e apreender o sentido da fala do autor no contexto hist?rico-cultural.Para a coleta de dados sobre a constru??o identit?ria da institui??o fez-se an?lise bibliogr?fica e documental sob um enfoque cr?tico e interpretativo, a fim de definir as categoriais te?ricas e emp?ricas. Foram realizadas entrevistas com os diversos atores sociais (Ex-diretores, docentes, t?cnicos, ex-alunos e pais), envolvidos com o objeto de estudo. Os depoimentos nos ajudam a compreender as rela??es sociais existentes entre os diversos sujeitos e os fatores que atuam no sistema educacional. Ap?s an?lise bibliogr?fica e documental, foram definidas as categorias te?ricas, que s?o tr?s: materialidade, representa??o e apropria??o. Buscou-se, ent?o, trilhar os quinze anos de exist?ncia do IF Baiano ? CSI, considerando sua trajet?ria como resultado de aspectos relacionados ao sistema pol?tico, aos valores atribu?dos ? institui??o educacional pela comunidade e ? forma como o sistema econ?mico interfere na organiza??o e desenvolvimento do sistema de ensino e na educa??o agr?cola brasileira, atrav?s de determinantes legais que n?o consideram as institui??es educacionais como ?rg?os distribu?dos em diferentes localidades do territ?rio nacional e que, por isso, s?o social e culturalmente diversas, provocando uma fluidez cont?nua, aligeirada, conflituosa entre seus elementos constituintes. O desencontro entre essas determinantes legais e a institui??o impede, pois, uma constru??o identit?ria planejada, positiva e dificulta que esta atenda aos interesses sociais e at? mesmo do capital

Submitted by Sandra Pereira (srpereira@ufrrj.br) on 2017-05-17T16:07:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012 - Elis?ngela Ferreira Floro.pdf: 2087642 bytes, checksum: 14c821e04b2e55f80590274779d82b2f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-17T16:07:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2012 - Elis?ngela Ferreira Floro.pdf: 2087642 bytes, checksum: 14c821e04b2e55f80590274779d82b2f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-29 / The crisis within the accumulation of capital which has been happening to almost four decades in the capitalist countries brought some deeper changes to the manners of production and in the work environment. Technological developments related to the new forms of production organization turned to require a new profile of worker, different from that one who was imposed by rigidity and fragmentation of the Taylor and Ford?s system. Taking into consideration that thechanges in thework areheterogeneous and comprehending that they need to be analyzed in relation to the geographic region and to the productive sector in which they occur, delimited as an object of study the conditions of employment and labor of agricultural technicians who work in the CRAJUBAR Triangle, (it is how is popularly called a specific territory in the region of Cariri in the Southern Cear?). Our aim was to analyze how the productive restructuring process imposed reforms to the educational systems and caused the crisis to agriculture, affecting the new graduates?s procedures and formation trajectories from the Cratocampus of the Instituto Federal do Cear? (IFCE/Crato). It is a basic research of qualitative analysis and descriptive approach in which was used as data collection instruments, the following primary sources: a) internal documents of IFCE Crato (Institutional Development Plan, Institutional Pedagogical Plan, Educational Project Course, school records of recently new graduates ones and subjects guidelines); b) questionnaires applied to teachers, businessmen and landowners; c) transcription of interviews applied to businessmen and rural producers; d) field diary (record of visits to farmers). For a characterization of the agricultural production in the Crajubar Triangle we used statistical data from IPECE and IBGE. The data which were analyzed reveled that the student?s process of technical-professional education of IFCE/Crato were influenced by the conceptions of the School-farm System and by the conventional agriculture, without taking account of studies about family agriculture (the major responsible for agricultural production in the CRAJUBAR Triangle). The chances of employment for the graduates of IFCE/Crato on medium and large range agricultural companies are very rare. The real job opportunities are in the companies of technical assistance and rural extension, which ones that aim to assist farming families to develop a model of agriculture that must be compatible to the semi arid Northeast region. However, the process of technical-professional education in IFCE/Crato is based on the effort to insert technological advances into the production processes of agribusiness. This option, on the detriment of the studies about family farming, distanced the qualification process of students of IFCE/Crato from reality of farming on the CRAJUBAR triangle, revealing the belief in the universality and neutrality of technology as if it could be simply transplanted business model to the family agricultural development model. Nevertheless, this apolitical character of the technical-professional education of IFCE/Crato adds itself to the fact of the main opportunity for integration of graduates to the labor market consist on the offering of temporary work, with flexible relations and poor working conditions offered, by a public company of the Cear? State. / A crise no ac?mulo do capital que vem ocorrendo h? quase quatro d?cadas nos pa?ses capitalistas trouxe profundas mudan?as nos modos de produ??o e no mundo do trabalho. Os avan?os tecnol?gicos relacionados ?s novas formas de organiza??o da produ??o passaram a exigir novo perfil de trabalhador, diferente daquele imposto pela rigidez e fragmenta??o do taylorismo-fordismo. Considerando que as mudan?as no mundo do trabalho s?o heterog?neas e compreendendo que as mesmas precisam ser analisadas em rela??o ? regi?o geogr?fica e ao ramo produtivo em que ocorrem, delimitamos como objeto de estudo as condi??es de emprego e de trabalho de t?cnicos em agropecu?ria que atuam no Tri?ngulo CRAJUBAR, Regi?o do Cariri, no Sul do Estado do Cear?. Nosso objetivo foi analisar como o processo de reestrutura??o produtiva imp?s reformas aos sistemas educacionais e ocasionou a crise na agropecu?ria, afetando as trajet?rias de forma??o e atua??o de egressos do Campus Crato do Instituto Federal do Cear? (IFCE/Crato). Trata-se de uma pesquisa b?sica, de an?lise qualitativa e de car?ter descritivo que utilizou como instrumentos de coleta de dados as seguintes fontes bibliogr?ficas prim?rias: a) documentos internos do IFCE/Crato (Plano de Desenvolvimento Institucional, Plano Pedag?gico Institucional, Projeto Pedag?gico de Curso, registros escolares de alunos egressos e ementas de disciplinas);b) question?rios aplicados aos docentes, empres?rios e propriet?rios rurais; c) transcri??o de entrevistasa empres?rios e produtores rurais; d) di?rio de campo (registro de visitas aos produtores agr?colas). Para uma caracteriza??o da produ??o agr?cola do Tri?ngulo CRAJUBAR, utilizamos dados estat?sticos do IPECE e do IBGE. Os dados analisados revelaram que o processo de forma??o t?cnico-profissional dos alunos do IFCE/Crato foi influenciado pelas concep??es do Sistema Escola-Fazenda e da agricultura convencional, sem contemplar estudos sobre a agricultura familiar (principal respons?vel pela produ??o agr?cola no Tri?ngulo CRAJUBAR). As chances de emprego para egressos do IFCE/Crato em empresas rurais de m?dio e grande porte s?o rar?ssimas. As oportunidades efetivas de trabalho est?o nas empresas de assist?ncia t?cnica e extens?o rural que t?m como objetivo auxiliar as fam?lias rurais a desenvolver um modelo de agricultura compat?vel com o semi?rido nordestino. Por?m, o processo de forma??o t?cnico-profissional no IFCE/Crato est? baseado no esfor?o em inserir avan?os tecnol?gicos nos processos de produ??o do agroneg?cio. Esta op??o, em detrimento dos estudos sobre agricultura familiar, distanciou o processo de qualifica??o dos alunos do IFCE/Crato da realidade da agropecu?ria do Tri?ngulo CRAJUBAR, revelando a cren?a na universalidade e neutralidade da tecnologia como se esta pudesse ser simplesmente transplantada do modelo empresarial para o modelo de desenvolvimento agr?cola familiar. N?o obstante, este car?ter despolitizado da forma??o t?cnico-profissionaldo IFCE/Crato se soma ao fato de a principal oportunidade de inser??o de seus egressos no mercado de trabalho consistir na oferta de trabalho tempor?rio, com rela??es trabalhistasflexibilizadas e condi??es de trabalho precarizadas, por parte de uma empresa p?blica estadual do Cear?.

Small-scale goat farmers from south-western KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, identified gastrointestinal helminths, dry-season feed scarcity and poor reproductive performance as major production constraints and highlighted the paucity of information on goat health and management. The research and extension processes adopted to address these problems comprised on-station experimentation, followed by on-farm validation combined with the participatory dissemination of both study findings and relevant information on goat health care. The approach included the use of the FAMACHA© system to assess anaemia, a characteristic symptom of infection with the gastrointestinal nematode, Haemonchus contortus (Rudolphi, 1803). On-station experimentation indicated that urea-molasses block supplementation during the dry, winter season was a cost-effective option. Unfortunately, when tested on-farm, the value of such supplementation proved inconclusive, possibly due to low block consumption and further research into alternative and palatable protein supplements for goats is suggested. However, tactical anthelmintic treatment with ivermectin effectively reduced faecal egg counts and is recommended, as is concurrent symptomatic anthelmintic treatment, as determined by the FAMACHA© system, since this practice appeared to improve reproductive capacity. Investigations to better adapt the FAMACHA© system to goats is, however, recommended. A flexible training framework was developed with the collaboration of the farmers, providing them with advice on goat health and management. This ‘hands-on’ approach encompassed regular meetings geared to the farmers’ current expertise and exploited the on-farm experimentation as a training vehicle. The process nurtured local farmer ‘champions’, strengthened the extension skills of researchers and technicians and incorporated the development of a Goatkeepers’ animal health care manual. Indications are that the use of such an approach has considerable potential for the development of goat farming. Moreover this process, which is relatively novel for South Africa, is equally applicable to other similar agro-ecological zones. Access to veterinary and agricultural inputs in areas where communal grazing is practised could be vastly improved and a case is made for universities, researchers, extensionists and farmers to collaborate to encourage the long-term sustainable development of these communities. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

The study was conducted in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, in the town of Pietermaritzburg, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The aim of the research was to analyse to what extent organic farming is part of the curriculum at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in the Faculty of Science and Agriculture. The objectives of the study consisted of determining what is currently offered in terms of organic farming or sustainable agriculture; identify what the perceptions of students and lecturers are about organic farming; and identify the challenges faced by academics and stakeholders in organic farming. The research method used to achieve the objectives was qualitative; it was done through interviews, site visits and observations. The data analysis used Microsoft Excel and SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) for interpretation and coding. This process was based on the data analysis spiral, as described by Creswell (1998) cited in Leedy and Ormrod (2005). The research found that in the UKZN current curriculum there is a presence of modules dealing with organic farming to a small extent. The perceptions of academic staff concerning organic farming were related to sustainability, environmental protection, use of alternative methods for food production, human health protection and knowledge for future generations. Organic farming was regarded as a crucial approach on different levels, including food security, environment, economy and market. The challenges in organic farming field are more related to costs involved in production, lack of interest or awareness, yield production (very poor and not competitive); limited career opportunities; lack of expertise in the organic domain, lack of government support and intense competition with chemical companies. The research recommends an enhancement of organic farming training in the curriculum at UKZN/PMB; involvement of students in developing the curriculum; government support for organic agriculture; more research exploring the merits and disadvantages of organic farming; assessment of farmers’ knowledge and skills in marketing; initiation of partnerships between organic farmers, processors, retailers; and government, to study a range of issues related to organic farming. / Thesis (M.Agric.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2010.

This thesis provides a comparative analysis of the environmental values present in Ghana’s and Senegal’s coastal regions, and the implications that those have for the surrounding environment. The countries approaches to urban farming, mining and oil and gas extraction, fishing, marine debris and municipal waste management are assessed in order to reach a greater understanding of these environmental issues. In undertaking this thesis, I attempted to draw a correlation between the handling of these issues and how people perceive their environment. Through the comparison of environmental degradation and the level of effort to achieve a more sustainable developmental framework in both countries, I draw examples from successes in Senegal’s coastal management framework to recommend appropriate environmental policy for the Greater Accra Region.