PHILOSOPHY OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN THE 21st CENTURY

Abstract

Agricultural education in the 21^st century must be able to create a new generation of farmers in line with the needs and context of society effectively. An effective agriculture education curriculum must respond to the charges in society and requires students to have up-to-date content knowledge and to be lifelong learners by appropriately applying information skills, media, and technology. The learners should have life and career skills, and professional skills in agriculture require love, patience, and determination. In addition, learners have creative thinking, analytical thinking, rational thinking, critical thinking, and problem-solving thinking. The learners are able to study and learn agriculture in many forms of education including formal education, informal education, and education as they wish by using the agricultural education philosophy of learning by doing. In addition, adopting popular reform philosophy in the form of agricultural education management emphasizes doing. The main aim of this study was to improve development and create new forms of society in the future for developing an agricultural education by applying technology in learning management. They can learn from schools, agricultural educational institutions, and the private sector. These learning centers are agricultural resources of the communities in which people participate in the implementation of agricultural education management. Agricultural education through a variety of learning sources is modern and learners can continue to study throughout their lives. If learners can follow the aforementioned philosophy, these young people will grow up into a new generation of farmers with potentiality, smartness, responsibility, and responsibility. Their study in agriculture will be successful and able to have a sustainable agricultural career