Towards a job competency profile for agricultural extension instructors: A survey of views of experts

Karbasioun, Mostafa; Mulder, Martin; Biemans, H.J.A.

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“…The term "agricultural extension" is a professional communication intervention deployed by organizations to disseminate agriculture knowledge and technologies to rural communities. Extension has a long history, based on adult education, communication science, community development, rural development and international development and has strong linkages with agriculture research and practice (Karbasioun et al, 2007).…”

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Attitudes of Vegetable Farmers Towards Public Agricultural Extension Services

Qtaishat¹,

AL-Sharafat²

2012

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Among vegetable farmers in Jordan, there are conflicting attitudes towards the extension activities provided by the public sector. Some farmers accept and adopt the recommendations of these activities; on the other hand, some people are not satisfied and consider these activities a waste of time for both the farmers and the government. This situation has serious impacts on the quality, duration and efficiency of the extension activities provided by government related agencies. Also, the situation will end in providing low-quality agricultural extension services to the farmers or providing these services in a non-productive manner. The actual attitudes of vegetable farmers towards Public Agricultural Extension Services (PAES) in the Dear Alla Area of Jordan were investigated in this study. A total of 80 vegetable farmers were selected for the study. A questionnaire consisting of two main parts was used for data collection; the first part was related to personal and socio-economic characteristics of the sample individuals. The second part was related to extension activities. A five-point Likerttype scale was used as an instrument to gather primary data. The farmers rated their attitudes toward Public Agricultural Extension Services (PAES) through 10 statements related carefully to the Public Agricultural Extension Services. Data analysis was done in two sections, consisting of data description and data inferential analysis. The results of the study revealed that the farmers' overall attitude towards the public agricultural extension activities was negative. The farmers' attitudes according to age, experience, educational level and frequency and type of contact with public extension services were also negative. The negative attitude of the participant farmers towards the Public Agricultural Extension Services means that the farmers were not satisfied with these services. Identifying the sources and types of public extension programs, the provision of legal and policy framework, farmer' participation, the determination of public extension functions, providing skilled manpower and networking and enhancing the capabilities of public extension service providers may aid in changing the farmers' attitudes towards the Public agricultural extension services to be positive.

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Attitudes of Vegetable Farmers Towards Public Agricultural Extension Services

Qtaishat¹,

AL-Sharafat²

2012

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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“…Similar studies followed which were aimed at identifying competencies for various professional domains such as rural advisory services, focusing on the development of a competence framework for agricultural instructors in Iran (Karbasioun et al, 2007) All these projects revealed research issues in the development of competence frameworks, which are related to the uniqueness of competence specifications for certain professions or task domains, their definitions, their scope, and their contextdependency.…”

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“…This project resulted in a job profile, a list of trends in the profession and series of job pictures and competence specifications. This project was used to test various research methods for the development of job profiles.Similar studies followed which were aimed at identifying competencies for various professional domains such as rural advisory services, focusing on the development of a competence framework for agricultural instructors in Iran (Karbasioun et al, 2007) All these projects revealed research issues in the development of competence frameworks, which are related to the uniqueness of competence specifications for certain professions or task domains, their definitions, their scope, and their contextdependency.Many professional organizations and associations have benefited from this work. …”

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Competence for life: a review of developments and perspective for the future : Farewell address upon retiring as Professor of Education and Competence Studies at Wageningen University & Research on 20 October 2016

Mulder¹

2016

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Esteemed Rector Magnificus, distinguished colleagues, respected students, family and friends.It is a great pleasure for me to see you all here and to give this farewell address after 42 years of active service in education and science. First of all I would like to apologize for those amongst you who do not understand English very well. Wageningen University is an international university, there are many international colleagues present here, and most of our academic meetings are held in English. What I would like to do in this farewell address is to present a review of competence theory, research and practice and share a perspective on future research on competence for life. I will begin with the short version of the turbulent history of the chair group I have been leading during the past 18 years. Then I will go into the alignment of the mission of ECS with the mission of Wageningen University. Next I will address the competence construct which has been the core focus of ECS, and give a short overview of the competence research we have conducted so far. Next I will point at overviews and syntheses which have been published during the last decades, and then I will go into the issue of competence for life and the future. Finally of course I like to conclude with a series of words of thanks. Short turbulent history of ECSSo, first of all in short hand the turbulent history of ECS. Or should I say the remarkable history of the chair group within this university. I will keep this short, although you may find this the most exciting part of my talk. When I came to Wageningen University from the University of Twente in 1998, I was not aware of the difficult situation in which Wageningen University was finding itself. Actually, it went through an existential crisis. Draconic measures were taken to discontinue many chair groups and several education programs. What nobody expected was that soon after my start in October 1998 it was decided to also strike the chair of Agricultural Education from the list of chairs of the University. This happened in November 1998, within six weeks after I assumed my position. It felt like being in the 4 | Prof.dr. Martin Mulder Competence for Life -A Review of Developments and Perspective for the Future famous Brussels bar 'A la Mort Subite'. I have spoken about this sudden and unexpected move of the university already in my inaugural address of 2004. I shared that I convinced the university that educational research and teacher education were contractual and legal commitments of Wageningen University, which resulted in postponing the decision to dissolve the chair group, and as we say in Dutch: 'van uitstel kwam afstel'. Postponing resulted in withdrawal of the decision. The chair was reinstalled as chair of 'Education Science' and a bit later as 'Education and Competence Studies'.Some may also remember the picture I showed from the regional newspaper, which commented on the strategic plan of the university at that time, saying that certain professors had luck, such as now emeritus profes...

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“…Based on Mulder's (2007) definition of competence -which was the basis for related empirical competence research (e.g. Wesselink et al, 2010;Karbasioun et al, 2007) -we augmented the search term 'competence' with the synonymous capabilities, knowledge, attitude, and skill. To the search term international business were added synonyms like foreign business, international trade, overseas business, intercontinental business, world business, and global business.…”

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“…To mention some of these studies: Lans (2009) studied how entrepreneurial competence is characterized and identified, how it develops and how it is fostered in small agricultural firms; Du Chatenier (2010) identified competencies for professionals in open innovation teams; Karbasioun et al (2007) worked on competency profile for agricultural extension instructors; Awuah (2007) studies on the competence development of professional services firms. Likewise, firms involved in exporting need to have certain competencies, which are fundamental building blocks of competitive advantage in the foreign markets and subsequently, leading to successful export performance (Knight and Kim, 2009;Chetty and Hamilton, 1993).…”

Towards a job competency profile for agricultural extension instructors: A survey of views of experts

Cited by 28 publications

References 14 publications

Attitudes of Vegetable Farmers Towards Public Agricultural Extension Services

Attitudes of Vegetable Farmers Towards Public Agricultural Extension Services

Competence for life: a review of developments and perspective for the future : Farewell address upon retiring as Professor of Education and Competence Studies at Wageningen University & Research on 20 October 2016

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