Abstract
This study presents the domain for the educational program of cooperative education on food and agriculture, which should be independently established, by clarifying the following three points.
1. The orientation and significance of applying principles and methods of cooperative education to the disciplines of food and agriculture;
2. The role, significance, and challenges of cooperative education from the prevailing practices in the United States and Japan;
3. The definition of cooperative education in the domain of food and agriculture as an educational program that nurtures conceptual power and planning ability by taking advantage of agronomics and fosters different viewpoints toward agriculture and rural areas through field studies.
