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5 Future Roles for Professional Societies and Scientists
5 Future Roles for Professional Societies and Scientists
Pages 30-36
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In addition, teachers and schools need help to improve the teaching and learning process, including the tools and techniques that they use. Professional societies can use their creativity to enhance the teaching and learning of children.
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Representatives suggested that a strategic plan be developed to identify roles individual professional societies could play in an umbrella organization. A1though some participants suggested that the National Research Council be a convener, Carla Carlson, former staff member of the Board on Agriculture, indicated that some opportunities might exist already to integrate various society activities.
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"I guess what I'm thinking is that our professional societies need to work out, within the context of their own cultures, some sort of operative structures that work for our particular cultures, that enable younger people with the desire and
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But their absence provides societies with the opportunity to address how agricultural sciences affect the application when we get down into the frameworks and the curricula. That is the challenge." Agricultural professional societies have performed a broad range of services in higher education, adult learning, and provision of technologies.
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