AEE 501 Foundations of Agricultural and Extension Education . The development and organization of agricultural and extension education in America from colonial times to the present. Emphasis on the role of societal and scientific changes, the federal government, and philosophy on the evolution of agricultural and extension education.
Every discipline has a foundation core of knowledge.
Professionals in the field should be cognizant of the discipline's foundations. This will give individuals a better understanding of the practices of the field, help them to appreciate the discipline, and may guide their practice. In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. Thus even if a student has a basic competence in the English language, he or she has little chance of entering the American mainstream without knowing what a silicon chip is, or when the Civil War was fought. In this book Hirsch identifies 5,000 names, dates, essential facts and concepts that an educated person should know.