Department of Agricultural Education & Studies

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Nancy Grudens-Schuck, Associate Professor

217D Curtiss Hall Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50011 Office: 515-294-0894 FAX: 515-294-0530 ngs@iastate.edu

 

Ph.D. (1998) Cornell University; Responsibilities: 70% teaching and advising; 30% research and extension.

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Research and Extension

My focus area is evaluation systems for teaching and learning within the context of agricultural education-construed broadly. My specialty areas for methodology are qualitative program evaluation, participatory evaluation, and participatory action research. I work within the contexts of sustainable agriculture and democratic, community-based approaches to natural resource management.

 

Selected Publications

Knoot, T. A., Grudens-Schuck, N., & Schulte, L. A. (2006, June). Watershed learning activity: Coming to terms with geographic scale. Journal of Extension, 44(3). Online at http://www.joe.org/joe/2006june/index.shtml

Allen, B. L., Grudens-Schuck, N., & Larson, K. (2004). Good intentions, muddled methods: Focus groups and quality. Journal of Extension, 42(4). Retrieved August 31, 2004 from http://www.joe.org.

Grudens-Schuck, N. (2004, November-December). The magic of unobtrusive measures. Agricultural Education Magazine, 77(3)11-12.

Grudens-Schuck, N., Allen, B. L., & Larson, K. (2004, May). Focus group fundamentals. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Extension. Available at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1969B.pdf.

Larson, K., Grudens-Schuck, N., & Allen, B. L. (2004, May). Can you call it a ‘focus group’? Ames, IA: Iowa State University Extension. Available at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1969A.pdf.

Grudens-Schuck, N. (2004, May). Teacher action research as a worldwide movement. Agricultural Education Magazine, 76(6), 5-7.

Grudens-Schuck, N. (2003, December). No beginners: Teaching participation at the graduate level. Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) Notes, 48, 11-14.

Grudens-Schuck, N. (2003). The rigidity and comfort of habits: A cultural and philosophical analysis of the ups and downs of mainstreaming evaluation. The Mainstreaming of Evaluation. New Directions for Evaluation, 99, 23-32.

Grudens-Schuck, N., Cramer, J., Exner, D., & Shour, M. (2003). The new adult education: Bringing peer educators up to speed. Journal of Extension, 41(4). Retrieved September 7, 2003 from http://www.joe.org.

McIntyre, J., & Grudens-Schuck, N. (in press). Research in adult education and training. In G. Foley (ed.), Understanding adult education and training (3rd edition), Sydney, AU: Allen and Unwin.

Grudens-Schuck, N., & Kramer, B.A. (2003). [Book review: Land-grant universities and extension into the 21st century: Renegotiating or abandoning a social contract. by George McDowell.] Journal of Agriculture and Human Values, 20(2), 205-208. http://faculty.agecon.vt.edu/mcdowell/book/fulltext.pdf

Grudens-Schuck, N. (2003). Public Issues Education projects: Meeting the evaluation challenges. Journal of Extension, 41(1). Available at http://www.joe.org.

Grudens-Schuck, N. Allen, W., Hargrove, T. A., & Kilvington, M. (2003). Renovation of dependency and self-reliance for participatory sustainable development. Journal of Agriculture and Human Values, 20(1), 53-64. Abstract available at http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0889-048X

Grudens-Schuck, N. (2001). Stakeholder effect: A qualitative study of the influence of farm leaders' ideas on a sustainable agriculture education program. Journal of Agricultural Education, 42(4), 1-11.

Grudens-Schuck, N. (2000). Farmers' control of program planning for a sustainable agriculture program in Ontario, Canada. Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education, 7(3), 39-46.

Grudens-Schuck, N. (2000). Conflict and engagement: An empirical study of a farmer-extension partnership in a sustainable agriculture program. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 13 (1), 79-100.

Deshler, D. & Grudens-Schuck, N. (2000). The politics of knowledge construction. In A.L. Wilson & E.R. Hayes (Eds.). Handbook of adult and continuing education (pp. 592-611). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Grudens-Schuck, N. (2000). A qualitative study of the influence of farm leaders' ideas on a sustainable agriculture education program. Paper presented at 27th National Agricultural Education Research Conference, San Diego, CA.