Education and Work in Rural America: Some Observations and Comments. [Report No.: TAES-H-3141; [Report No.: USDA-CSRS-S-114

Autor/inn/en	Cosby, Arthur G.; und weitere
Institution	Texas A and M Univ., College Station. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.
Titel	Education and Work in Rural America: Some Observations and Comments. [Report No.: TAES-H-3141; [Report No.: USDA-CSRS-S-114
Quelle	(1978), (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Agricultural Education; Agricultural Occupations; Black Youth; Demography; Educational Change; Employment Opportunities; Ethnic Distribution; Literature Reviews; Minority Groups; Occupational Clusters; Private Schools; Regional Characteristics; Rural Education; Rural Youth; School Desegregation; Stereotypes; Urbanization; Work Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Agriculture; Education; Landwirtschaftliche Ausbildung; Landwirtschaft; Ausbildung; Occupation; Beruf; Landwirtschaftlicher Beruf; Demografie; Bildungsreform; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Ethnische Minderheit; Berufsgruppe; Private school; Privatschule; Regionaler Faktor; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Rural area; Rural areas; Youth; Ländlicher Raum; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Integrative Schule; Klischee; Urbanisation; Urbanisierung; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung
Abstract	The rural population constitutes a large segment of the total population. Using 1970 census estimates, the total rural population was over 53.8 million people. Of these, 46.4% was less than 25 years of age. Of these 25 million rural youth, about 10.5 million were located in the South and 7.4 million in the North-Central Region. The Northeast and West had substantially smaller proportions. There were 2.3 million Black, 700,000 Spanish heritage, and 300,000 Native American rural youth; the rest were classified as white. Yet substantial numbers of rural Americans suffer from problems of opportunity, achievement, attainment, services and stereotyping. Since the rural economy generally centers around agricultural production and services which support such production, the rural occupation structure is relatively undifferentiated as to types of occupation. Therefore, agricultural education has been expanded to include a wide range of agricultural nonproduction occupations--many of which have as their residential locus the city rather than the farm. Highlighting some issues considered critical to the understanding of education and work in contemporary Rural America, this paper overviews the demography of rural youth with comments on the implication of ethnic, racial, and regional variation; speculates on the growth of higher education in agriculture and the urbanization of the occupational structure of agriculture; discusses the lack of research on racial desegregation of rural schools; and presents some new data on the recent growth of private school enrollment. (NQ)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01