Attitudes of Nebraska Superintendents, Principals, and Vocational Agriculture Instructors Regarding the Delivery of Adult Education Through Secondary Programs

Rapid changes in agricultural technology, coupled with an increasingly older agricultural population, make adult education in agriculture a must (Drueckhammer & White, 1984). In order to facilitate the process of incorporating adult vocational agriculture education into traditional secondary programs, the individuals most directly involved in organizing, funding, and conducting adult programs need to be encouraged to do so. Viterna (1973) concluded that school administrators were directly responsible for program development. Viterna also found that the same administrators were willing to support young farmer classes in Nebraska. In studying the attitudes of superintendents of comprehensive high schools in Ohio, Miller and Krill (1985) found school administrators to be conceptually supportive of adult vocational agriculture education as part of secondary vocational agriculture programs.