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A Simulation Game Teaching Aid for Rural Development*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

James Nelson  and
Gerald Doeksen
James Nelson
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
Gerald Doeksen
Affiliation:
Economic Development DivisionUSDA, stationed atOklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma
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Teaching rural development must reflect the breadth and complexity of the real world situation. Time limitations may restrict the teacher primarily to presentation and discussion of the field's many facets, leaving little time to consider how these diverse elements interact. Even if careful course planning and strict adherence to a course outlined provide classroom time for such consideration, only advanced graduate students are likely to have sufficient expertise to readily understand the relationships, real or hypothesized, resulting from these interactions.

Alternatives in the classroom include giving these relationships only cursory, descriptive treatment, or digging into them with analytical fervor, thereby causing many students a great deal of chagrin. A third alternative is demonstrating interactive aspects of rural development with a game. Such a game is discussed in this paper.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , July 1975 , pp. 239 - 245
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1975

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Footnotes

*

Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station Journal Article P-176. The research was part of James Nelson's Ph.D. thesis completed at Oklahoma State University.

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