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Scholarship For Extension Agents

Scholarship For Extension Agents. Marcia B. Meador Northeast District Program Leader July 31, 2014. What is scholarship?. Does it apply to your work? What qualifies as scholarly work?. Scholarship is. “Creative intellectual work that is validated by peers and communicated.”

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Scholarship For Extension Agents

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  1. Scholarship For Extension Agents Marcia B. Meador Northeast District Program Leader July 31, 2014

  2. What is scholarship? • Does it apply to your work? • What qualifies as scholarly work?

  3. Scholarship is “Creative intellectual work that is validated by peers and communicated.” (Weiser, 1996)

  4. Elements of Scholarship Boyer (1990) identified four elements • Developing a program or project • Implementing that effort • Evaluating, revising and refining that effort • Sharing what you have learned

  5. Cooperative Extension Work 1990 version of Smith-Lever Act: Cooperative agricultural extension work shall consist of the development of practical applications of research knowledge and giving of instruction and practical demonstrations of existing or improved practices of technologies in agriculture, home economics, and rural energy, and subjects relating thereto…

  6. Oregon State University’s View OSU defines scholarship as “creative intellectual works that is validated by peers and communicated.” • Discovery of new knowledge • Development of new technologies • Creative Artistry (Schauber 1998)

  7. How does scholarly work vary across program areas? Family Community Leadership Program • Created a new volunteer model • Collected program statistics and evaluations • Documentation on impact of participants • Survey to volunteers • Collected data on impact to community (Schauber 1998)

  8. ANR example • Agent initiated a pesticide sprayer tune up program • Helped growers calibrate sprayers • Check operation of their sprayers • Made improvements on 86% of sprayers • Save growers money by reducing pesticide • Used data collected on pesticides and the number of acres documented impact of program (Schauber 1998)

  9. Redefining Scholarship • Exploring & Discovery • Sharing Results & Findings • Teaching & Learning • Application & Reflection • Creative Artistry • Integration (Culp 2006)

  10. PINC & Scholarship • PINC – Problems, issues, needs and concerns • What are the most effective ways to address the PINC in your locality? • How can the stakeholders be involved in solving this problem?

  11. Challenges for Scholarship • Maintaining a scholarly mentality • Expanding our philosophy of scholarship • Understanding the scholarship of engagement • Developing ways to share program results (Alter 2003)

  12. A Scholarly Mentality • Reflect upon scholarship in your program • Exploration & Discovery • Sharing & Reporting Results & Findings • Application & Reflection • Teaching & Learning • Creative Artistry • Integration (Culp 2006)

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