Handbook on Agricultural Education in Public Schools, Sixth Edition

Handbook on Agricultural Education in Public Schools, Sixth Edition By Lloyd J. Phipps, Edward, W. Osborne, James, E. Dyer, and Anna Ball, Thomson Delmar Learning, 2008, 553 pages, hard cover, $67.96. ISBN 978-1-4180-3993-6

This new textbook gives an overview of the main concepts and principles of agricultural education. Although this new edition is intended as the primary source for undergraduate and graduate students in agricultural education who are developing and advancing their expertise as teachers, it provides the knowledge base needed by agriscience teachers, teacher educators, and leaders in the field of agricultural education. In order to meet the ever changing needs of agricultural education, the authors have done an outstanding job in adding several new chapters, from agricultural literacy (chapter 2) to agricultural education in industry and community settings (chapter 4), agricultural education provided through the Cooperative Extension Service (chapter 3), to theoretical foundations and principles of effective teaching (chapter 12). The book aslo...