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Meaning and Definition
Extension Education is an applied science consisting of content derived from research, accumulated field experiences and relevant principles drawn from the behavioural sciences synthesized with useful technology into a body of philosophy, principles, content and methods focused on the problems of out-of-school education of adults and youth.
Need and Importance of Extension Teaching
Emphasis on the extension education aspects stems from the belief that education helps people learn how to do things for themselves and that service consists of doing things for people.
Education makes people more self-reliant; services make them more dependent on someone else. Education consists of more than imparting information to people or supplying answers to people’s questions. Education must help people develop the ability of understanding and reasoning which enables them to think through problems and arrive at solutions on their own.
To gain this purpose the role of extension worker is to attain competency that he/she can single out the right ways and present them as hypothesis for others, thus saving them the pain of having to examine personally all the wrong ways. The fact that many wrong ways are presented by those who pretend to be extension teachers does not modify their role as teachers; it only disqualifies their pretensions.
The ability of individuals engaged in teaching varies and there are no born teachers. Everybody is gifted by nature. Anyone with good intelligence and the will to study, practice, plan and revise ways of doing the teaching job can gain the needed skill to do effective teaching. It is simply a matter of hard work, study, concentration and the will to achieve proficiency.
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