Training in agroforestry: A toolkit for trainers, 2003
Frequently, stakeholders have been called upon to provide information on the nature of the jobs which foresters should carry out in their working environment, as in the DACUM approach. There is no doubt that this is a sound way of working where jobs are clearly defined. In many contexts, however, the work of foresters and people engaged in (agro) forestry-related activities is changing so rapidly that the job cannot be used as a starting point. In these cases, job descriptions or profiles are often non-existent or out-dated, and so it is necessary to explore the context much more deeply and intensively. A wider range of tools and methodologies may be needed, and so approaches such as DACUM may be quite complementary as a component within the participatory curriculum development process.
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