Prospectus for a Cooperative Extension System in Education

Abstract

This article reviews lessons learned from the agricultural extension model that may be applicable to the proposed cooperative extension service in education. The agricultural extension model is a user-oriented system linking knowledge producers through state extension specialists and county extension agents with farm people and other knowledge users. In education, the adopters of innovations may be organczations such as schools as well as individuals such as teachers and administrators; the impacts of the educational innovations are less clear-cut than in agriculture; and educational innovations come from practitioners, as well as from the educational research and development system.