Extractions: I. Wallace Agricultural Education as a "Learning Sub-system" Agricultural Education is often described as a complex discipline (White, 1990), but may also be viewed as a "learning sub-system", linked to wider rural knowledge and learning systems. It has been suggested elsewhere that it may be divided into two major sectors, representing formal and nonformal components of the subsystem. The interface between these two can become a fruitful point for innovative, educational activity. In addition both the formal and nonformal sectors may be thought of as being bounded by permeable membranes - there are mutual interactions both between the two, and with the wider environment in which agricultural education operates.(Wallace, 1992:52) The latter include exchanges with policy makers and planners, research institutions, linked academic disciplines, commercial organisations; and also a broad spectrum of rural clienteles and the groups and organisations to which they belong, or which represent them.
Extractions: Newsletter A Bi-annual Publication of the Agriculture Seminar of the Association for Baha'i Studies - North America The purpose of the Association for Baha'i Studies Agriculture Seminar is to call attention to the emphasis that the Baha'i Writings place on agriculture and its importance to community, and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and for consultation on the practical application of these Writings. The Agriculture Seminar is a network of Baha'is interested in agriculture and community development, some of whom have formed regional groups, and several of whom have initiated agricultural projects that work in cooperation with the seminar. The seminar's organizing committee believes agriculture to be a crucial issue, both because of its prominence in the Writings and because of the events of these times. It is the hope of the committee that the seminar can make a contribution to meeting the spiritual and material challenges ahead. ABS Conference
