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Anne Willem van den Ban (born 28 February 1928, Leeuwarderadeel) is a Dutch scholar, whose work is on Agricultural Extension. ==Bio== Van den Ban (son of two extension agents) studied Agricultural Economics at the ''Landbouwhogeschool'' (agricultural university) in Wageningen between 1945 and 1953. The ''Landbouwhogeschool'' is currently known as Wageningen University (part of Wageningen University and Research Centre). In an article〔Rogers, E.M.; Ban, A.W. van den (1963). Research on the diffusion of agricultural innovations in the United States and the Netherlands. Sociologia ruralis 3 . - p. 38 - 51.〕 that van den Ban wrote with Everett M. Rogers (from whom the diffusion of innovations theory originates), he describes how Professor E.W. Hofstee made a study-tour in 1950 of land-grant universities in the U.S. This study-tour was sponsored by the Marshall Plan. Hofstee had been impressed with the research on the adoption of new farm practices and when he returned to the ''landbouwhogeschool'' he stressed this topic in his lectures. Van den Ban, who was a student of Hofstee, chose the adoption of innovations as topic for his Master’s thesis. After completing military service, van den Ban started working for the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, for which he did research on agricultural extension at the Department of Rural Sociology of the ''Landbouwhogeschool''. Based on this research, van den Ban obtained his PhD in 1963 with Prof. E.W. Hofstee being his tutor. His thesis was called ''(Boer en landbouwvoorlichting: de communicatie van nieuwe landbouwmethoden )''(Farmer and agricultural extension, the communication of new farming practices).〔van den Ban, A. W. (1963). Boer en landbouwvoorlichting : de communicatie van nieuwe landbouwmethoden. Wageningen, Pudoc.〕 His work is believed to be the first empirical study on agricultural extension in Europe.〔http://library.wur.nl/way/index_ban.html〕 In 1964 van den Ban started the department of Extension Education. At the time of his retirement, in 1983, the department had grown to be one of the 5 largest departments at the ''Landbouwhogeschool''. Nowadays, this is the department of Communication Science〔http://www.com.wur.nl〕 with two sub-departments; Communication and Innovation Studies, and Communication Strategies. Although van den Ban retired from the department in 1983, he continued to work as a consultant in different countries, mainly in India and Tanzania. Van den Ban is advisor to the Executive Council of the International Society for Extension Education (INSEE)〔http://inseeworld.com/executive_council.htm〕 and received a Life Time Achievement Award in September 2008 for his ''"outstanding contribution in the field of Extension Education, Agricultural Development and Rural Development"''〔http://www.com.wur.nl/UK/newsagenda/archive/news/2008/Professor+honoured+in+Goa.htm〕 from this organization Van den Ban was appointed an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau for his outstanding scientific achievements on a national and international level on the 15th of September 2011. The award was presented during a meeting to mark the award of the 200th scholarship by the (Anne van den Ban Scholarship Fund ).〔http://www.wageningen.nl/Actueel/Nieuws/Archief_2011/Prof_dr_ir_Van_den_Ban_benoemd_tot_Officier_in_de_Orde_van_Oranje_Nassau〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anne van den Ban」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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