Perspective of Extension Education

The book 'Perspective of Extension Education' has certainly been a selection by the time itself, not by the choice of the author himself. The book has accommodated all possible innovative aspects of extension sciences along with its basic and classical contents. The book has been in full compliance with the UG & PG students’ course guidelines as delineated by the ICAR, New Delhi. The chapterisation being: Part I- Basis of Extension Education: Fundamental of Extension Education; Modern Agricultural Extension; Managing Human Resource Planning within Extension; Training and Evaluation in Extension; Gender Analysis in Agriculture; Extension Role in Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development; Monitoring and Evaluation for Agricultural Extension Programmes; Role of Extension in Sustainable Agricultural Development and The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Extension, Part 2- Society with Sociology and Psychology: Rural Sociology; Rural Government; Society with Sociology; Culture and Society and Educational Psychology, Part 3-Rural Development, Rural Development; Developmental Programmes of Pre-independence Era and Post-independence Era; CDP; Organization Set Up in Agricultural Development Programme; Basic Elements of Rural Development; Reorganized Extension System, Part 4- Participatory Development, Participatory Technology Development and Participatory Extension and Participatory Research, Part 5 - Training and Development, Training; Methods of Training; Trainer’s Role and Responsibility; The Process of Learning and Training Module, Part 6 - Communication and Diffusion of Innovations, Concept and Element of Communication; Models of Communication; Principles of Effective Communication; Theories and Functions of communication; Barriers to communication; Some Relevant Terminologies in Communication; Agricultural Communication & Journalism; Diffusion and Innovation, Part 7 - Audio-Visual Aids, Meaning and Classification of AV Aids and Part 8 - Research, Teaching and Extension, History of Agricultural Research in India; Establishment of the ICAR; Agricultural Universities; KVK; ATMA and Different Extension Programmes in India. The book will be welcome by a galaxy of scholars and professionals and keep generating valuable feed back in reconstructing it in due course of time.]