Extension Education and Communication

1    Extension Education
1.1    Education and Types of Education
1.2    Meaning, definition, Scope
1.3    Extension Education Process 
1.4    Philosophy, Objective, Principle
1.5    Teaching-learning process, Elements of learning situation 
1.6    Principle of learning, Steps in Extension teaching
2    Extension Programme Planning
2.1    Terms related to Programme planning
2.2    Objective and Principle
2.3    Extension Programme Planning Process
3    Extension System in India
3.1    Pre-Independence Era (1866-1947) - Gurgaon experiment, Sriniketan Project, Sewagram Experiment in Wardha, Marthandam Project, Baroda village reconstruction project, Grow more food campaign, Indian village service and Firka development programme
3.2    Post-Independence Era (1948-1953) - Nilokheri Project, Etawah Pilot project
4    Agricultural and Rural Development Programmes
4.1    Agricultural Programmes
4.2    Social Justice and Poverty alleviation Programmes
4.3    Women Development Programmes
5    New Trends in Agriculture Extension 
5.1    Privatization of extension
5.2    Cyber extension
5.3    Farmer and Market Led Extension
5.4    Expert System
6    Rural and Community Development
6.1    Meaning, definition and concept
6.2    Community development
6.3    Community development programme
7    Rural Leadership
7.1    Meaning and Characteristic of leadership
7.2    Concept, Function, classification
8    Extension Administration
8.1    Management v/s Administration
8.2    principle and process of Management
9    Monitoring and Evaluation
9.1    Concept, Type of Evaluation
9.2    Purpose of Evaluation
9.3    Difference between Monitoring and Evaluation
10    Training for Development
10.1    Concept
10.2    Phases of Training
10.3    Training Needs Assessment
11    Extension Teaching Methods
11.1    Introduction
11.2    Individual, Group, and Mass contact methods
11.3    Classification of Extension teaching method (Acc. to form and use)
12    Media Mix
12.1    Introduction
12.2    Aligning Media Mix with Adoption Stages
13    Communication
13.1    Meaning and Nature of Communication
13.2    Levels of Communication
13.3    Communication Theories and Models
13.4    Barriers to Communication
14    Agricultural Journalism
14.1    History of agricultural journalism
14.2    Fundamental, Effective writing needs
14.3    Five ‘W’ of Writing
14.4    Effective writing technique
14.5    NEWS, Technique of effective NEWS writing
15    Diffusion and Adoption of Innovation
15.1    Diffusion process
15.2    Adoption process
15.3    Elements of Diffusion process
15.4    Innovation-diffusion process
15.5    Adopter category and its characteristic of adopter categories
16    Transfer of Technology
16.1    Concept
16.2    ICAR’s first line extension projects
16.3    Models of ToT
16.4    ICT Application in ToT
17    Developmental Extension Programmes at a Glance
17.1    Pre- Independence Programmes
17.2    Post-Independence Programmes
17.2    Major Developmental Programmes
18    Previous Year Papers
18.1    EXCOM-121 (2017-18)
18.2    EXCOM-121 (2019-20)
18.3    EXCOM-121 (2020-21)
18.4    EXCOM-121 (2021-22)
18.5    EXCOM-121 (2022-23)
    References