Author: Ty Wesley Tidwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : County agricultural agents
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Texas A&M AgriLife serves as a resource for quality education for every county in Texas. Since 1914, Texas A&M AgriLife has focused on creating healthier, more productive lifestyles for families across the state. As a county agent’s job becomes faster paced, with higher demands, the need for emotional intelligence also increases. Mayer and Salovey (1997) pointed out that emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive, access, understand, and regulate emotions in order to promote growth. Measuring the emotional intelligence of agents has the potential to impact professional development programs used to train agents. Further, emotional intelligence research can be used to impact curriculum in higher education. This study’s data identified that Emotional Reasoning ranked as the highest sub-categories, while Emotional Self-Control (ESC) ranked the lowest. When evaluating correlations between demographics and emotional intelligence, males, in this study, had a higher Emotional Self Control (ESC) than women. Education level revealed a statistical significance in general by finding that agents with more education had higher emotional intelligence scores. Emotional Self-Management (ESM) showed to be the highest ranked EI sub-category among the seven EI sub-categories, in correlating with demographics. Spending more time and resources on the development of emotional intelligence in agents through means of continuing education, can potentially show effectiveness for AgriLife as they move forward in educating the public.
Assessment of Emotional Intelligence in Texas A&M AgriLife County Extension Agents
Author: Ty Wesley Tidwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : County agricultural agents
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Texas A&M AgriLife serves as a resource for quality education for every county in Texas. Since 1914, Texas A&M AgriLife has focused on creating healthier, more productive lifestyles for families across the state. As a county agent’s job becomes faster paced, with higher demands, the need for emotional intelligence also increases. Mayer and Salovey (1997) pointed out that emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive, access, understand, and regulate emotions in order to promote growth. Measuring the emotional intelligence of agents has the potential to impact professional development programs used to train agents. Further, emotional intelligence research can be used to impact curriculum in higher education. This study’s data identified that Emotional Reasoning ranked as the highest sub-categories, while Emotional Self-Control (ESC) ranked the lowest. When evaluating correlations between demographics and emotional intelligence, males, in this study, had a higher Emotional Self Control (ESC) than women. Education level revealed a statistical significance in general by finding that agents with more education had higher emotional intelligence scores. Emotional Self-Management (ESM) showed to be the highest ranked EI sub-category among the seven EI sub-categories, in correlating with demographics. Spending more time and resources on the development of emotional intelligence in agents through means of continuing education, can potentially show effectiveness for AgriLife as they move forward in educating the public.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : County agricultural agents
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Texas A&M AgriLife serves as a resource for quality education for every county in Texas. Since 1914, Texas A&M AgriLife has focused on creating healthier, more productive lifestyles for families across the state. As a county agent’s job becomes faster paced, with higher demands, the need for emotional intelligence also increases. Mayer and Salovey (1997) pointed out that emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive, access, understand, and regulate emotions in order to promote growth. Measuring the emotional intelligence of agents has the potential to impact professional development programs used to train agents. Further, emotional intelligence research can be used to impact curriculum in higher education. This study’s data identified that Emotional Reasoning ranked as the highest sub-categories, while Emotional Self-Control (ESC) ranked the lowest. When evaluating correlations between demographics and emotional intelligence, males, in this study, had a higher Emotional Self Control (ESC) than women. Education level revealed a statistical significance in general by finding that agents with more education had higher emotional intelligence scores. Emotional Self-Management (ESM) showed to be the highest ranked EI sub-category among the seven EI sub-categories, in correlating with demographics. Spending more time and resources on the development of emotional intelligence in agents through means of continuing education, can potentially show effectiveness for AgriLife as they move forward in educating the public.
The Relationship of Emotional Intelligence and Transformational Leadership Behavior in Texas AgriLife Extension Service Mid-managers
Author: Angela B. Burkham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership styles among Texas AgriLife Extension Service mid-managers. A web based three part instrument was administered to participants. A general questionnaire about demographics, work history and views of leadership was part one. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ form 5x) developed by Avolio and Bass examined the leader's self reported leadership style. The MLQ identifies scores for transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leadership styles and those were compared with scores on the BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory Test (EQ-i). An independent samples t test was performed to assess whether the mean EI subscales scores for the high transformational leadership group differed significantly from the low transformational leadership group. Six EI constructs were statistically significant in relation to transformational leadership behavior. The six were: optimism, happiness, empathy, interpersonal relationships, self-regard, and stress tolerance. An independent samples t test was performed to assess whether the mean EI subscales scores for the high transactional leadership group differed significantly from the low transactional leadership group. Social responsibility was the one EI construct that was statistically significant in relation to transactional leadership behavior. The findings from this study indicate the leaders can develop and strengthen emotional intelligence and in doing so can more likely exhibit the use of transformational leadership behaviors. Further study would be needed to demonstrate the extent of possible application, but it is commendable that if leaders are trained in EI and those skills are fostered, they will be more likely to utilize transformational leadership further resulting in organizational effectiveness and follower satisfaction.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership styles among Texas AgriLife Extension Service mid-managers. A web based three part instrument was administered to participants. A general questionnaire about demographics, work history and views of leadership was part one. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ form 5x) developed by Avolio and Bass examined the leader's self reported leadership style. The MLQ identifies scores for transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leadership styles and those were compared with scores on the BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory Test (EQ-i). An independent samples t test was performed to assess whether the mean EI subscales scores for the high transformational leadership group differed significantly from the low transformational leadership group. Six EI constructs were statistically significant in relation to transformational leadership behavior. The six were: optimism, happiness, empathy, interpersonal relationships, self-regard, and stress tolerance. An independent samples t test was performed to assess whether the mean EI subscales scores for the high transactional leadership group differed significantly from the low transactional leadership group. Social responsibility was the one EI construct that was statistically significant in relation to transactional leadership behavior. The findings from this study indicate the leaders can develop and strengthen emotional intelligence and in doing so can more likely exhibit the use of transformational leadership behaviors. Further study would be needed to demonstrate the extent of possible application, but it is commendable that if leaders are trained in EI and those skills are fostered, they will be more likely to utilize transformational leadership further resulting in organizational effectiveness and follower satisfaction.
Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309473926
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food domestically and provide a trade surplus in bulk and high-value agricultural commodities and foods. Today, the U.S. food and agricultural enterprise faces formidable challenges that will test its long-term sustainability, competitiveness, and resilience. On its current path, future productivity in the U.S. agricultural system is likely to come with trade-offs. The success of agriculture is tied to natural systems, and these systems are showing signs of stress, even more so with the change in climate. More than a third of the food produced is unconsumed, an unacceptable loss of food and nutrients at a time of heightened global food demand. Increased food animal production to meet greater demand will generate more greenhouse gas emissions and excess animal waste. The U.S. food supply is generally secure, but is not immune to the costly and deadly shocks of continuing outbreaks of food-borne illness or to the constant threat of pests and pathogens to crops, livestock, and poultry. U.S. farmers and producers are at the front lines and will need more tools to manage the pressures they face. Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030 identifies innovative, emerging scientific advances for making the U.S. food and agricultural system more efficient, resilient, and sustainable. This report explores the availability of relatively new scientific developments across all disciplines that could accelerate progress toward these goals. It identifies the most promising scientific breakthroughs that could have the greatest positive impact on food and agriculture, and that are possible to achieve in the next decade (by 2030).
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309473926
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food domestically and provide a trade surplus in bulk and high-value agricultural commodities and foods. Today, the U.S. food and agricultural enterprise faces formidable challenges that will test its long-term sustainability, competitiveness, and resilience. On its current path, future productivity in the U.S. agricultural system is likely to come with trade-offs. The success of agriculture is tied to natural systems, and these systems are showing signs of stress, even more so with the change in climate. More than a third of the food produced is unconsumed, an unacceptable loss of food and nutrients at a time of heightened global food demand. Increased food animal production to meet greater demand will generate more greenhouse gas emissions and excess animal waste. The U.S. food supply is generally secure, but is not immune to the costly and deadly shocks of continuing outbreaks of food-borne illness or to the constant threat of pests and pathogens to crops, livestock, and poultry. U.S. farmers and producers are at the front lines and will need more tools to manage the pressures they face. Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030 identifies innovative, emerging scientific advances for making the U.S. food and agricultural system more efficient, resilient, and sustainable. This report explores the availability of relatively new scientific developments across all disciplines that could accelerate progress toward these goals. It identifies the most promising scientific breakthroughs that could have the greatest positive impact on food and agriculture, and that are possible to achieve in the next decade (by 2030).
Springer Handbook of Robotics
Author: Bruno Siciliano
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319325523
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 2259
Book Description
The second edition of this handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview on the various aspects in the rapidly developing field of robotics. Reaching for the human frontier, robotics is vigorously engaged in the growing challenges of new emerging domains. Interacting, exploring, and working with humans, the new generation of robots will increasingly touch people and their lives. The credible prospect of practical robots among humans is the result of the scientific endeavour of a half a century of robotic developments that established robotics as a modern scientific discipline. The ongoing vibrant expansion and strong growth of the field during the last decade has fueled this second edition of the Springer Handbook of Robotics. The first edition of the handbook soon became a landmark in robotics publishing and won the American Association of Publishers PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics as well as the organization’s Award for Engineering & Technology. The second edition of the handbook, edited by two internationally renowned scientists with the support of an outstanding team of seven part editors and more than 200 authors, continues to be an authoritative reference for robotics researchers, newcomers to the field, and scholars from related disciplines. The contents have been restructured to achieve four main objectives: the enlargement of foundational topics for robotics, the enlightenment of design of various types of robotic systems, the extension of the treatment on robots moving in the environment, and the enrichment of advanced robotics applications. Further to an extensive update, fifteen new chapters have been introduced on emerging topics, and a new generation of authors have joined the handbook’s team. A novel addition to the second edition is a comprehensive collection of multimedia references to more than 700 videos, which bring valuable insight into the contents. The videos can be viewed directly augmented into the text with a smartphone or tablet using a unique and specially designed app. Springer Handbook of Robotics Multimedia Extension Portal: http://handbookofrobotics.org/
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319325523
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 2259
Book Description
The second edition of this handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview on the various aspects in the rapidly developing field of robotics. Reaching for the human frontier, robotics is vigorously engaged in the growing challenges of new emerging domains. Interacting, exploring, and working with humans, the new generation of robots will increasingly touch people and their lives. The credible prospect of practical robots among humans is the result of the scientific endeavour of a half a century of robotic developments that established robotics as a modern scientific discipline. The ongoing vibrant expansion and strong growth of the field during the last decade has fueled this second edition of the Springer Handbook of Robotics. The first edition of the handbook soon became a landmark in robotics publishing and won the American Association of Publishers PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics as well as the organization’s Award for Engineering & Technology. The second edition of the handbook, edited by two internationally renowned scientists with the support of an outstanding team of seven part editors and more than 200 authors, continues to be an authoritative reference for robotics researchers, newcomers to the field, and scholars from related disciplines. The contents have been restructured to achieve four main objectives: the enlargement of foundational topics for robotics, the enlightenment of design of various types of robotic systems, the extension of the treatment on robots moving in the environment, and the enrichment of advanced robotics applications. Further to an extensive update, fifteen new chapters have been introduced on emerging topics, and a new generation of authors have joined the handbook’s team. A novel addition to the second edition is a comprehensive collection of multimedia references to more than 700 videos, which bring valuable insight into the contents. The videos can be viewed directly augmented into the text with a smartphone or tablet using a unique and specially designed app. Springer Handbook of Robotics Multimedia Extension Portal: http://handbookofrobotics.org/
How the Brain Learns Mathematics
Author: David A. Sousa
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1452294917
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Learn how the brain processes mathematical concepts and why some students develop math anxiety! David A. Sousa discusses the cognitive mechanisms for learning mathematics and the environmental and developmental factors that contribute to mathematics difficulties. This award-winning text examines: Children’s innate number sense and how the brain develops an understanding of number relationships Rationales for modifying lessons to meet the developmental learning stages of young children, preadolescents, and adolescents How to plan lessons in PreK–12 mathematics Implications of current research for planning mathematics lessons, including discoveries about memory systems and lesson timing Methods to help elementary and secondary school teachers detect mathematics difficulties Clear connections to the NCTM standards and curriculum focal points
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1452294917
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Learn how the brain processes mathematical concepts and why some students develop math anxiety! David A. Sousa discusses the cognitive mechanisms for learning mathematics and the environmental and developmental factors that contribute to mathematics difficulties. This award-winning text examines: Children’s innate number sense and how the brain develops an understanding of number relationships Rationales for modifying lessons to meet the developmental learning stages of young children, preadolescents, and adolescents How to plan lessons in PreK–12 mathematics Implications of current research for planning mathematics lessons, including discoveries about memory systems and lesson timing Methods to help elementary and secondary school teachers detect mathematics difficulties Clear connections to the NCTM standards and curriculum focal points
Collaboration Across Boundaries for Social-Ecological Systems Science
Author: Stephen G. Perz
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030138275
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Collaboration across boundaries is widely recognized as a vital requisite for the advancement of innovative science to address problems such as environmental degradation and global change. This book takes collaboration across boundaries seriously by focusing on the many challenges and practices involved in team science when spanning disciplinary, organizational, national and other divides. The authors draw on a shared framework for managing the challenges of collaboration across boundaries as applied to the science of understanding complex social-ecological systems. Teams working across boundaries on diverse social-ecological systems in countries around the world report their challenges and share their practices, outcomes and lessons learned. From these diverse experiences arise many commonalities and also some important differences. These provide the basis for a set of recommendations to any collaborators intending to use science as a tool to better understand social-ecological systems and to improve their management and governance.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030138275
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Collaboration across boundaries is widely recognized as a vital requisite for the advancement of innovative science to address problems such as environmental degradation and global change. This book takes collaboration across boundaries seriously by focusing on the many challenges and practices involved in team science when spanning disciplinary, organizational, national and other divides. The authors draw on a shared framework for managing the challenges of collaboration across boundaries as applied to the science of understanding complex social-ecological systems. Teams working across boundaries on diverse social-ecological systems in countries around the world report their challenges and share their practices, outcomes and lessons learned. From these diverse experiences arise many commonalities and also some important differences. These provide the basis for a set of recommendations to any collaborators intending to use science as a tool to better understand social-ecological systems and to improve their management and governance.
This Changes Everything
Author: Naomi Klein
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451697384
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
With strong first-hand reporting and an original, provocative thesis, Naomi Klein returns with this book on how the climate crisis must spur transformational political change
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451697384
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
With strong first-hand reporting and an original, provocative thesis, Naomi Klein returns with this book on how the climate crisis must spur transformational political change
Animal Lives Worth Living
Author: Ruth C. Newberry
Publisher: Brill Wageningen Academic
ISBN: 9789086863389
Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The main theme of this year's congress is 'Animal lives worth living'. This theme focuses on our responsibility for all animals kept or influenced by humans, to ensure that we can provide a life for them that takes into account all relevant aspects of animal welfare, aided by applied ethology as the key scientific discipline. This not only means avoiding and alleviating suffering but also promoting resilience and positive experiences. By monitoring and interpreting animal behaviour, we gain important insights into each of these aspects of quality of life.
Publisher: Brill Wageningen Academic
ISBN: 9789086863389
Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The main theme of this year's congress is 'Animal lives worth living'. This theme focuses on our responsibility for all animals kept or influenced by humans, to ensure that we can provide a life for them that takes into account all relevant aspects of animal welfare, aided by applied ethology as the key scientific discipline. This not only means avoiding and alleviating suffering but also promoting resilience and positive experiences. By monitoring and interpreting animal behaviour, we gain important insights into each of these aspects of quality of life.
Foundations of Adult Education in Africa
Author: Fredrick Muyia Nafukho
Publisher: Pearson South Africa
ISBN: 9789282011218
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book presents key concepts, information and principles that should underlie the practice of adult education in African contexts. It assumes that adult educators should have a historical perspective on the current educational context, understand how the colonial experience has impacted on indigenous traditions and be aware of the philosophical underpinnings of adult education activities. The chapters introduce the foundations and history of adult education in Africa; philosophy and adult education; socio-cultural, political and economic environments; opportunities and access for adult learners; gender and development in adult education; adult education as a developing profession; information and communication technology; globalization and adult education; and policies and structures of lifelong learning
Publisher: Pearson South Africa
ISBN: 9789282011218
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book presents key concepts, information and principles that should underlie the practice of adult education in African contexts. It assumes that adult educators should have a historical perspective on the current educational context, understand how the colonial experience has impacted on indigenous traditions and be aware of the philosophical underpinnings of adult education activities. The chapters introduce the foundations and history of adult education in Africa; philosophy and adult education; socio-cultural, political and economic environments; opportunities and access for adult learners; gender and development in adult education; adult education as a developing profession; information and communication technology; globalization and adult education; and policies and structures of lifelong learning
Summary of Awards
Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.). Division of Environmental Systems and Resources
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description