Professional Training of New Farmers: The Case of Students of the American Farm School’s Private Vocational Training Institute | Chapter 3 | Emerging Issues in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 9

 The aim of this study is to gain more about how young producers perceive differing aspects of vocational instruction as they relate to American Farm School students registered in the Vocational Training Institute (VTI). The intent of vocational instruction is to prepare graduates for careers as technologists, craftspeople, or tradesmen. Another habit to think about vocational instruction is as the kind of education that is to say given to a person in consideration of provide them accompanying the required abilities for gainful work or self-employment. Processed dossier arriving from specially planned Likert level questions revealed that young farmer scholars find it absolutely necessary to take part in training programs ruled by experiential learning methods, while recognizing that these processes are linked to their information and skill improvement for cultivating a firm future professional consignment in the agrofood sector. To that longer, experiential education applications would subsequently assist program members to cultivate and grow a better understanding for novelty, which undoubtedly influence the path of agribusiness investment sustainability. Although current social sectorial progress has taken important steps ahead, seems that still not being acceptable in terms of competitiveness. However, there has expected always tension to evenly execute such patterns of professional experiential knowledge from specialized educational arrangements to concretely reach out bigger levels of improvement in rural happening alongside with other main eminent and specific factors.

Author(s) Details:

Anna Papakonstantinou,
School of Professional Education, American Farm School - Perrotis College, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Marios Koutsoukos,
School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, 16 Al. Papanastasiou, 546 39 Thessaloniki, Greece.

Konstantinos Zoukidis,
School of Professional Education, American Farm School - Perrotis College, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Evangelos Vergos,
School of Professional Education, American Farm School - Perrotis College, Thessaloniki, Greece.

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