A Handbook Of Extension Education

Extension education A has to change in harmony with fast changing national and global scenario. The information and communication technological advances in transfer of technology have changed the TOT paradigm. The book Modern Extension Education emphasizes to provide a comprehensive reading material for extension professionals, students and researchers. This book will fulfill the needs of ICARs restructured postgraduate (masters and doctoral) course curricula and syllabi of extension education at the national level. The book is divided into seven parts, each dealing with separate aspects. All these parts have been presented in a logical sequence.

SECTION I: ADVANCED DIMENSIONS OF EXTENSION EDUCATION

1. Conceptual Issues in Extension Education
2. Sustainable Development: Concept, Model and Principle
3. Demand - Driven Extension Strategy through Participatory Mode
4. Communitization of Quality Extension System
5. Extension and Management

1. Impact Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation - Concepts, Domains and Praxeology
2. Research Design
3. Theory Building in Extension Research
4. A Scale to Measure Scientific Temperament of Farmers

1. Theories and Models of Communication
2. Axiomatic Theory of Communication Behavior
3. Adoption and Diffusion of Innovation: An Axiomatic Theory
4. Information System and Participatory Approaches for Project Formulation
5. Right to Information: Tool to Empower Common Man

1. Reporting Dimension in Extension Education: Agricultural Journalism

1. Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Framework

1. Empowerment - Human Resource Development

1. ICTs in Agricultural Extension
2. Harnessing ICT Potentials for Empowering Rural Folk

1. Intellectual Property Right's

1. Subject Index