A teacher's guide on Agroforestry landscape analysis: curricular framework and case study materials

This guide is intended primarily for university lecturers but could also be used by Extensionists and community development workers who wish to conduct training on the subject matter.This guide is divided into three major sections, namely: 1) The SEANAFE'sAgroforestry Landscape Analysis Project Overview; 2) The SEANAFE's AgroforestryLandscape Analysis Curricular Framework; and the 3) Country Teaching Case StudyMaterials. Section 1 provides a brief background on SEANAFE AFLA Project highlighting the salient processes through which this guide was generated. Section 2 discusses in detail the components of the AFLA curricular framework. Section 3 presents the country cases and offers ways to effectively use them for teaching AFLA. It provides suggestions for encouraging critical thinking among students, including guide questions and discussions, suggested teaching activities and references. This, however, should not limit the users. Instead, they are encouraged to further explore the other potential applications of the cases as teaching materials. The curricular framework does not claim to be complete and comprehensive. However, SEANAFE considers it adequate to help enhance the knowledge, skills, and appreciation of students and other users on AFLA toward a more sustainable use and management of natural resources. The teaching case study materials also do not cover all the aspects of AFLA as a result of the kind of available data gathered by the country teams from their respective case study sites. Thus, users are encouraged to make assumptions about information absent from the cases and/or use other relevant cases to help teach AFLA concepts fully. The guide assumes that the users have considerable experience in using case study as a teaching method. First timers to this approach are encouraged to read the Notes for Teachers well in advance before giving the case study materials to their students. The effectiveness of the case study materials relies on how well the users have grounded themselves on its suggested use and internalized the basic information therein.

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