Practitioner Perspectives on the Current Status of Agriculture Education in the United States

For modern nations, a healthy agricultural sector provides the necessary foundation for the economic growth and social progress that enhance their citizens’ quality of life. Historically, agriculture education has been a dynamic and growing facet of career and technical education in the United States. Currently, however, public policy and support for agriculture education is negatively impacted by a national attitude that devalues agriculture education and perceives it as less desirable than a four-year college degree. This paper considers the history, scope, and current status of agriculture education in the context of increasing worldwide demand for agricultural products and rapidly changing technology.

Research on the Implementation Path of Ideological and Political Education in the“Horticultural Plant Production Technology”Course under the Rural Revitalization Strategy

The horticultural industry plays an important role in the rural revitalization strategy.As the core course of horticultural technology,“Horticultural Plant Production Technology”shoulders an important mission in serving the rural revitalization strategy and cultivating a group of rural revitalization talents who truly love agriculture,know agricultural techniques,and understand agriculture.Under the dimension of ideological and political education in the curriculum,based on the strategy of rural revitalization,the implementation path of ideological and political education in the curriculum is expanded and improved from the construction of education models,curriculum team building,excavation of ideological and political elements,and construction of evaluation systems,in order to improve the level of ideological and political education in horticultural plant production technology courses and provide certain reference and guidance for the ideological and political construction of similar agricultural vocational education courses.

Discussion on Construction and Mechanism of Practice Bases for Professional Degree Postgraduates Based on the Integration of Production and Education in Local Universities

Under the background of emerging agricultural education,practice bases are an important place to train profession talented person that match social needs,so it is very important to build stable and long-term practice bases.At present,the main problems in the construction of practice bases for postgraduates in local colleges and universities are mainly focusing on construction and neglecting management,imperfect cooperation mechanism and lack of teaching management effectively.It is of great significance to build a long-term management mechanism to ensure the education quality of practice bases.Therefore,constructing the mode of"double integration and double promotion of production and education"with practice bases as the carrier and realizing the organic combination of industrial needs and postgraduate projects is an important idea for local colleges and universities to train professional degree postgraduates to"know agriculture,love agriculture,strengthen agriculture and promote agriculture",and it also provides a reference for the mechanism construction of postgraduate bases.

Places of Heritage in Cities:The Challenge of Planning Based on Their Sustainable Urban Integration

The paper examines a case study of a monument of cultural heritage,which includes elements of historical,architectural and rural landscape,as well as other material and intangible elements.The monument,named“Averofios Agricultural School”,is located within the urban area of Larissa,on its outskirts.The school,established in 1901,operates as an educational agricultural organization,has been declared to be preserved by the Greek Ministry of Culture and its management involves five different public institutions.The main issue is that the school is at risk of depreciation due to degrading phenomena and its further isolation.The paper argues that its obsolescence could be stopped if the area could be integrated into the city of Larissa from the urban,operational,educational and strategic point of view.For this purpose,it is proposed to regenerate the area and to use it as a peri-urban rural educational park with local,regional and national scope.

Thoughts and Countermeasures of Agricultural Revolution in Science and Technology

As science and technology is the first productivity, this paper, through investigation of agricultural revolution in science and technology, proposes the countermeasures to the agricultural revolution in science and technology. The author hopes it can promote the realization of rural prosperity, peasant＇s richness and agricultural development in some degree.