Título del libro: Cultural Understanding Of Soils: The Importance Of Cultural Diversity And Of The Inner World
Título del capítulo: Degrees Pursued by Students in Different Countries to Train for Careers in Soil Science
LAURA BERTHA REYES SANCHEZ;
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Año de publicación:
2023
Resumen:
Soil science is an extremely interdisciplinary field, which means it does not necessarily have an obvious academic home and multiple academic departments have been documented to offer soil science coursework and curricula. This chapter investigated how different academic cultures in 11 countries around the world (Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States) view soils based on the placement of soils within their undergraduate academic degree programs. Soil science training was scattered among a wide range of academic subject areas, with agronomic, environmental, or geosciences being the most common. Several countries had some academic programs that offered soil science as a stand-alone program, but except for China, stand-alone soil science programs were not the most common way to offer undergraduate soil science degrees in the countries investigated. Many of the countries investigated reported a shift in the academic placement of soil science training away from the agronomic sciences toward an environmental or geosciences focus in recent decades. The study concluded that each country?s unique culture played a part in determining where academic soil training is found. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.
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9783031131691
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Degrees Pursued by Students in Different Countries to Train for Careers in Soil Science
Página inicial:
483
Página final:
507
