Agricultural College Students' Agricultural Paradigm and Impact Factors
| Autor: | Yi-Chen Kao, 高苡甄 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 100 After the Green Revolution, there are generally two different worldviews regarding agriculture─the “conventional agriculture paradigm”, which supports industrial and highly-efficient agricultural practices, and the “alternative agriculture paradigm”, which emphasizes sustainability in the farming system. The purpose of this study is to investigate agricultural college students’ views on the two paradigms, and how higher education experience and personal background shape their views. Questionnaires were designed on the base of Beus and Dunlap’s (1991) “Alternative-Conventional Agriculture Paradigm Scale”, and were delivered to freshmen and seniors in College of Bioresources and Agricuture at NTU in fall 2011. 616 questionnaires were responded, with a reply rate at 65.3%. The results showed that the students in this study have the tendency toward alternative agriculture paradigm in overall scale, as well as in both ecological and social dimension. Considering “higher education experience,” there are “grade,”“department,”“course,” and “school club”have the impacts on agricultural paradigm. As for“personal background,” there are“gender,”“living experience,”“relatives or friends,”“personal practice,” and “reading” have the impacts. More precisely, the students who are freshmen, who have taken alternative agriculture courses, who have joined alternative agriculture student clubs, or belong to the department of bio-industry communication and development have higher affinity to alternative agricultural paradigm. As for the “personal background,” students who are female, have had the rural alternative agriculture experiences, have had relatives or him/herself do alternative agriculture, and being used to read relevant information have a higher tendency towards alternative agriculture paradigm. Lastly, the study brought up a timeline model to access the effectiveness of each factors. |
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