Important concepts of extension education

 1. Extension work - It means the whole structure of Extension work. It includes the process of Extension Education i.e. the process of teaching and learning. Besides the process, in extension work are included organizations, administration, supervision, finances as well as the programs for the overall development.

2. Extension Service - It means an organization and/or a program for welfare and development, which employs the extension educational process for the implementation of the program. It is thus the same as that of extension work except that in extension service there has been greater emphasis on service.

3. Extension Job - The job of extension in agriculture and home science is to assist people engaged in farming and home-making to utilize their own resources more effectively and those that are available to them, the changing economic and social conditions.

4. Extension Educational process - The extension process is working with the people with their immediate needs and interests which can make available additional occupation, make improvement in the socio-economic status, better home management, and expedite welfare of the rural people.

5. Concept: Concepts and principles may rightly be called the building blocks of discipline. They constitute the basic structure of a subject. Their thorough understanding is absolutely essential to really understand and appreciate the content and worth of a discipline.

"A concept is an abstraction from observed events or a shorthand representation of the variety of facts." The purpose of concepts is to simplify thinking by sub-summing a number of events under general one handing. "Concept is an idea, general notion, or way in which one can see a thing in his mind. In more general, the concept means assigning meaning to the words."

The concept can be described as………

a. A notion, idea or way in which you can see a thing in your mind, but itself is not observable.

b. A conceptual picture of what and why.

c. A guide to understanding something you can observe.

d. A tool for thinking and learning.

e. An abstraction of quality and not an object or event.

f. Open-ended, general enough to include specifics but yet not a statement of relationships.

g. An intellectual framework for problem-solving, the basis upon which the human mind interprets and analyzes problems

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