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A History of Graduate Education in Agricultural Education in the United States

Ray, Timothy D
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5418-8083
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1449231598

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2015, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Agricultural and Extension Education.
Agricultural Education has a long and storied history in the United States of America that dates well before the Federal Vocational Education Act of 1917 (Smith-Hughes) and the Land Grant College Act of 1862 (Morrill Act). According to True (1929), the foundations of agricultural education can be traced to early America and the close of the Revolutionary War. In the early 1900s, agricultural education experienced enormous growth both in the number of schools offering agriculture as part of the curriculum and the number of students, both boys and girls. Robinson and Jenks (1913) reported fewer than 100 programs in the United States in 1906 offering instruction in agriculture. By the 1909-10 school year, Robinson and Jenks reported 1800 schools that had been identified by the Bureau of Education as offering agriculture as a separate study. True (1929) reported that in the 1915-16 school year, there were 3,675 agriculture programs with more than 73,000 students. With this rapid expansion came a need for qualified teachers of agricultural conten in public schools. According to Hillison, (1986) the early years of the 20th century were important to the development of teacher education in agriculture. Teacher education was being implemented for the first time as a result of the great demand for both elementary and secondary agriculture teachers. Decisions about the sources of teachers and types of training, along with the fundamental question of who should provide the training needed to be made. Ultimately, it was determined that agricultural education teachers should have training in both agriculture and education, but be closely tied to colleges of agriculture. The University Revolution period from 1876 to 1900 contains events that determined the character of American higher education for the twentieth century and beyond (Berelson, 1960). The period settled permanently the issue of whether or not graduate study would occur or not (Berelson). Programs of graduate study initially took root in three kinds of institutions: new ones like Hopkins, Chicago, and Clark; strong private colleges like Harvard, Columbia, and Yale; and such strong public institutions on the rise as California, Michigan, and Wisconsin (Berelson). Rossiter (1986) described the development of graduate education in agricultural education in the United States through the appointment of strong visionary deans of the Colleges of agriculture. Among these early administrators were Eugene Davenport of the University of Illinois (1895-1922); Liberty Hyde Bailey of Cornell University (1903-1913), who was followed by Arthur Mann (1916-1930) and Carl E. Ladd (1931-1943); Harry Luman Russell at the University of Wisconsin (1907-1930); Thomas F. Hunt at Pennsylvania State College (1907-1912) and the University of California (1912-1929), where he was followed by Claude B. Hutchinson (1930-1952); Raymond Pearson (1912-1926) Raymond Hughes at Iowa State (1927-1936); and Robert Shaw at Michigan State (1928-1941) (Rossiter). In 2010, Foor and Connors, concluded that the early teacher educators of agriculture were well qualified to develop agricultural education departments at higher education institutions because they possessed Masters and Doctorate degrees in agriculture and/or education (Foor & Connors).
M. S. Whittington, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Jeff King, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
69 p.
Agricultural Education
History, Agriculture, Education, Agricultural Education

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  • Ray, T. D. (2015). A History of Graduate Education in Agricultural Education in the United States [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1449231598

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  • Ray, Timothy. A History of Graduate Education in Agricultural Education in the United States. 2015. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1449231598.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ray, Timothy. "A History of Graduate Education in Agricultural Education in the United States." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1449231598

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