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Blog – 48: New Advances in Extension Research Methodologies-Part 1

To improve the rigour of extension research, one should use new and effective research methodologies. This is the first in a two-part blog series by Dr P Sethuraman Sivakumar who discusses some of these new approaches

 

P. Sethuraman Sivakumar is Senior Scientist, Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (ICAR-CTCRI) Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram – 695017, Kerala, India.
Email: sethu_73@fulbrightmail.org

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  • This blog is an wonderful paper that highlights major issues in extension methodology. I love such kind of scholarly and in depth analysis .Many many thanks to Dr. Sethuraman

  • This is an excellent blog, just like his previous blogs on this subject.Dr Sakumar should consider writing a book on extension research methodology and DKMA/ICAR is accepting proposals to write text books. We all know that there is dearth of good text books in extension education. Congratulations & looking forward for a comprehensive book on RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN EXTENSION EDUCATION

  • Thanks Sethuraman sir for an excellent blog..I am sure this is a great eye-opener for research in extension..This blog surely will help the master and phd scholars for improving the quality of research..Would be happy to read the next part of this blog at the earliest…

  • I am happy that quality articles are presented as blogs and can vouch that many of the blogs are far better than those appearing in the research journals. Though Dr P S SIvakumar is not known to me personally, his name is farmiliar to me through your blogs. Thanks for publishing such blogs for the sake of our young researchers. Dr Sivakumars blog is very informative and in fact can give a lot of insights to the youngsters. I hope that he will also cover action research and translational research. Recently, I came across an interesting article on wheat value chain based on translational research that can be used by our extension researchers. Likewise, there are many articles which should be made familiar to the students.A good text book on Research Methodology for Extension Scientists is the need of the houriv

  • I have read the blog and it is well written. I have also seen the other contributions of the author. They are good. A source book on the methodologies, their applications with an application and if possible a user friendly software if prepared by him subsequent his next part of the blog will be a good help to the fraternity