See abstract in folder of Document No. D06143., Abstract of poster presentation at North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture conference, Athens, Georgia, June 16-20., "eXtension has not been adopted among Iowa Extension professionals as founders intended it would be and has the potential to become a disruptive innovation..." Only 15 percent of study participants indicated using eXtension in their work.
Bultena, Gordon L. (author), Hoiberg, E. (author), and Iowa State University, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology; Iowa State University, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1983
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 53 Document Number: C00859
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08638
Notes:
Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of research report. Agricultural Extension, Iowa State University, Ames. Special Report No. 15 (North Central Regional Publication No. 1, Agricultural Extension Service). 12 pages.
Johnson, Allen W. (author / Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, NY) and Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, NY
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1972
Published:
USA: Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York, NY
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05368
Evans, cited reference, Most observers agree upon the existence among traditional agriculturalists of a conservative attitude toward innovation and upon this conservatism being the rational result of a well-adapted set of existing techniques in combination with a marginal level of subsistence. This view, however, fails to take account of the readily demonstrated existence of both individual differences in agricultural practice and systematic experimentation are probably pervasive in traditional societies, and must be seen as an essential component of their adaptive processes, as important as the more familiar processes of traditional transmissions. (original)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C12688
Notes:
Pages 119-134 in Bruce R. Crouch and Shankariah Chamala (eds.), Extension education and rural development. Volume 1 - International experience in communication and innovation. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester. 371 p.
