since agriculture represents such a massive global activity, seems to me
it would be a valuable context for framing questions about learning by
expansion - ALL of us have a relation to agricultural industry, farming,
eating particular produce and boycotting particular political-produce
(grapes, bananas) - slave wages, subsidization, genetic engineering,
nationalized farming and the crisis of wheat, or beef, - waste, the
environment, encroaching capitalism and
cultural transformations, as communities are moved from local to
large-scale farming, production, and so on.
btw, i'm VERY interested in Laura's work, here, and would recommend her
publications, particularly in terms of the "participatory development"
realms of environmental and agricultural activism.
di
xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/activity/people/lauras.htm
Seppänen, L., Muuttomaa, E., Granstedt, A. & Pehu, E. 2000. In the midst
of farming, advice and research. The participatory development of organic
vegetable farms. Publications of Agricultural Research Centre of Finland.
Serie A 75. Jokioinen. (in Finnish, abstract in English).
Seppänen, L. 2000. Activity theoretical view on crop rotation planning in
organic vegetable farming. Fourth European Symposium on European Farming
and Rural Systems Research and Extension, in Volos, Greece, April 3 to 7,
2000. Proceedings: 283-292.
Seppänen, L. (forthcoming, 2001). Creating tools for farmers' learning: an
application of developmental work research. (To be published in
Agricultural Systems; approved).
"my doctor says i wouldn't have so many nosebleeds if i would just keep my
finger out of there. "
Ralph Wiggums.
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