Extension Education : Core Contents and Emerging Areas
Contents: Preface. 1. Futuristic outlook for India/Debabrata Das Gupta. 2. Vision of Indian farm sector/Debabrata Das Gupta. 3. Extension education--third dimension of university system/Debabrata Das Gupta. 4. Conceptual and philosophical dimension of extension education/Birendra Kumar. 5. Early extension movements in India/Manas Mohan Adhikary and Anindita Saha. 6. Rural development/Siddhartha D. Mukhopadhyay. 7. Programme planning and evaluation/C. Satapathy and Sabita Mishra. 8. Teaching - learning in extension education/Prabhat Kumar Pal and Koushik Pradhan. 9. Communication/Siddhartha D. Mukhopadhyay. 10. Transfer of technology. 11. Adoption and diffusion of innovations/Sarthak Chowdhury. 12. Knowledge information system - a synergistic extension approach/Anindita Saha. 13. Farm journalism/Debabrata Basu. 14. Organization, administration, management and supervision/Debabrata Das Gupta and Prabhat Kumar Pal. 15. Capacity building through training/Prabir Kumar Gangopadhyay. 16. Women in agriculture/Sarthak Chowdhury. 17. Participatory extension/Sankar Kumar Acharya and Debabrata Das Gupta. 18. Common people\'s knowledge and extension education/Debabrata Das Gupta, Anindita Saha and Swapan Behari Mukhopadhyay. 19. Privatization of extension/Santosh Kumar Rout, Chakradhar Satapathy and Debabrata Das Gupta. 20. Information and communication technology in extension/Debabrata Das Gupta and Puranjan Das. 21. Globalization and extension education/Debabrata Das Gupta. 22. Impact assessment - concept and domains/Dipak De and Basavaprabhu Jirli. 23. Research methods in behavioral sciences/Anita Jhamtani and R.N. Podaria. 24. Pragmatic research and development in farm sector/Dibyendu Sen and Debabrata Das Gupta. 25. Societal dimension in agricultural and rural development/Debabrata Das Gupta. 26. Logistics of social science in extension education/Amal Kumar Mallick. Subject index.
"All agricultural disciplines have to cope with the subsequent and emerging thoughts not to speak of extension education alone. The scope of extension education has gradually broadened enough without a shift in the basic focus to make it as comprehensive as possible. This discipline has undergone gradual metamorphosis through the last few decades. As a result of this process the discipline has been facing serious challenges particularly against the backdrop of globalization.
The coverage of this book represents the fusion of traditional contents of the discipline with a number of emerging thoughts relevant to the discipline. As such this volume should serve the purpose beyond an ordinary text book on extension education. It should be treated as a reference book for several purposes. This book is meant for UG and PG students of agriculture, veterinary and animal sciences, fishery, home science, dairy science. Besides, it should also serve as a reference manual for training and management centres like KVKs, ATCs and various government departments, cooperatives, banks and NGOs and even for different management institutes." (jacket)
