Contributions of community psychology to rural advisory services: an analysis of Latin American rural extensionists’ point of view

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Landini, Fernando Pablo
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2015
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During the last decade, rural extension has received interest as being a key tool for rural development. Despite rural extension being affected by many psychosocial processes, psychology has made scarce contributions to it. An investigation was conducted with the aim of gaining knowledge of rural extensionists’ expectations of psychology, as well as to contribute to shaping community psychologists’ role in the context of rural extension . 652 extensionists from 12 Latin American countries were surveyed. The survey included closed socio-demographic questions as well as open ones addressing extension practice and psychologists’ potential contributions. 90.6 % of surveyed extensionists considered psychology could help them improve their practice. Most mentioned areas of contribution go in line with community psychology, including managing farmers groups, facilitating participatory processes and training extensionists; while others, such as the expectation of changing farmers’ mindset and increasing the adoption of external technologies, go against its principles. Thus, in some cases, extensionists’ expectations could help generate an interesting interaction between community psychology and rural extension, while in others, they need to be put up for discussion. In brief, community psychology has the potential to contribute to rural extension, but it needs to acknowledge extension practice as an interesting area for intervention.
Fil: Landini, Fernando Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Moron; Argentina. Universidad de la Cuenca del Plata; Argentina
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Contributions
Rural Extension
Rural Advisory Services
Community Psychology
Latin America
Farmers
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Contributions of community psychology to rural advisory services: an analysis of Latin American rural extensionists’ point of view
title Contributions of community psychology to rural advisory services: an analysis of Latin American rural extensionists’ point of view
spellingShingle Contributions of community psychology to rural advisory services: an analysis of Latin American rural extensionists’ point of view
Landini, Fernando Pablo
Contributions
Rural Extension
Rural Advisory Services
Community Psychology
Latin America
Farmers
title_short Contributions of community psychology to rural advisory services: an analysis of Latin American rural extensionists’ point of view
title_full Contributions of community psychology to rural advisory services: an analysis of Latin American rural extensionists’ point of view
title_fullStr Contributions of community psychology to rural advisory services: an analysis of Latin American rural extensionists’ point of view
title_full_unstemmed Contributions of community psychology to rural advisory services: an analysis of Latin American rural extensionists’ point of view
title_sort Contributions of community psychology to rural advisory services: an analysis of Latin American rural extensionists’ point of view
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Landini, Fernando Pablo
author Landini, Fernando Pablo
author_facet Landini, Fernando Pablo
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Contributions
Rural Extension
Rural Advisory Services
Community Psychology
Latin America
Farmers
topic Contributions
Rural Extension
Rural Advisory Services
Community Psychology
Latin America
Farmers
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https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv During the last decade, rural extension has received interest as being a key tool for rural development. Despite rural extension being affected by many psychosocial processes, psychology has made scarce contributions to it. An investigation was conducted with the aim of gaining knowledge of rural extensionists’ expectations of psychology, as well as to contribute to shaping community psychologists’ role in the context of rural extension . 652 extensionists from 12 Latin American countries were surveyed. The survey included closed socio-demographic questions as well as open ones addressing extension practice and psychologists’ potential contributions. 90.6 % of surveyed extensionists considered psychology could help them improve their practice. Most mentioned areas of contribution go in line with community psychology, including managing farmers groups, facilitating participatory processes and training extensionists; while others, such as the expectation of changing farmers’ mindset and increasing the adoption of external technologies, go against its principles. Thus, in some cases, extensionists’ expectations could help generate an interesting interaction between community psychology and rural extension, while in others, they need to be put up for discussion. In brief, community psychology has the potential to contribute to rural extension, but it needs to acknowledge extension practice as an interesting area for intervention.
Fil: Landini, Fernando Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Moron; Argentina. Universidad de la Cuenca del Plata; Argentina
description During the last decade, rural extension has received interest as being a key tool for rural development. Despite rural extension being affected by many psychosocial processes, psychology has made scarce contributions to it. An investigation was conducted with the aim of gaining knowledge of rural extensionists’ expectations of psychology, as well as to contribute to shaping community psychologists’ role in the context of rural extension . 652 extensionists from 12 Latin American countries were surveyed. The survey included closed socio-demographic questions as well as open ones addressing extension practice and psychologists’ potential contributions. 90.6 % of surveyed extensionists considered psychology could help them improve their practice. Most mentioned areas of contribution go in line with community psychology, including managing farmers groups, facilitating participatory processes and training extensionists; while others, such as the expectation of changing farmers’ mindset and increasing the adoption of external technologies, go against its principles. Thus, in some cases, extensionists’ expectations could help generate an interesting interaction between community psychology and rural extension, while in others, they need to be put up for discussion. In brief, community psychology has the potential to contribute to rural extension, but it needs to acknowledge extension practice as an interesting area for intervention.
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