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This guide is intended primarily for university lecturers but could also be used byExtensionists and community development workers who wish to conduct trainingon the subjectmatter.
This guide is divided into three major sections, namely: 1) The SEANAFE'sAgroforestry Landscape Analysis Project Overview; 2) The SEANAFE's AgroforestryLandscape Analysis Curricular Framework; and the 3) Country Teaching Case StudyMaterials.
Section 1 provides a brief background on SEANAFE AFLA Project highlighting thesalient processes through which this guidewas generated.
Section 2 discusses in detail the components of the AFLA curricular framework.
Section 3 presents the country cases and offers ways to effectively use them forteaching AFLA. It provides suggestions for encouraging critical thinking amongstudents, including guide questions and discussions, suggested teaching activitiesand references. This, however, should not limit the users. Instead, they areencouraged to further explore the other potential applications of the cases asteachingmaterials.
The curricular framework does not claim to be complete and comprehensive.However, SEANAFE considers it adequate to help enhance the knowledge, skills,and appreciation of students and other users on AFLA toward a more sustainableuse and management of natural resources. The teaching case study materials alsodo not cover all the aspects of AFLA as a result of the kind of available data gatheredby the country teams from their respective case study sites. Thus, users areencouraged to make assumptions about information absent fromthe cases and/oruse other relevant cases to help teach AFLA concepts fully.
The guide assumes that the users have considerable experience in using case studyas a teaching method. First timers to this approach are encouraged to read theNotes for Teachers well in advance before giving the case study materials to theirstudents. The effectiveness of the case study materials relies on howwell the usershave grounded themselves on its suggested use and internalized the basicinformation therein. |
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