Collaborative action Archives - Extension Practice

Topic: Collaborative action

published - 31 August 2018
By Gavin Beever

Negotiation – Achieving Consensus, Collaboration and Outcomes

Negotiating for agreed outcomes is a skill that can be learnt. Technical expertise or hard skills, are often what the clients of extension professionals are looking for. However, in modern day extension programs, it is now critical that soft skills, such as being able to effectively negotiate, enable collaboration and …
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Collaborative action, Consensus, Extension planning, Negotiation

Home, Methods & Tools, Resources, Theory

published - 1 September 2016

Cow Up a Tree – Collaborative Learning

A key argument within this theory is that the current extension situation has changed since the linear model of extension (adoption and diffusion model) was adopted worldwide after WWII. Cow up a tree argues that new issues are emerging such as:

Environmental crises
Food safety and quality
Rural and urban relationships, and
Multi-functionality of …
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Actors, Collaborative action, Collaborative learning, Critical engagement, Extension planning, Framework, Innovation, Learning process approach, New extension approaches

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