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Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts

P. Sainath

New Delhi: Penguin (1996), 470 pp.

"Acclaimed across the world, prescribed in over 100 universities and colleges, and included in part in The Century's Greatest Reportage (Ordfront, 2000), alongside the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Studs Terkel and John Reed, Everybody Loves a Good Drought is the established classic on rural pove ... more

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Communication for Rural Development in Mexico: In Good Times and in Bad

Rome: FAO (1996), xvi, 93 pp.

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Promoting Reading in Developing Countries

Vincent Greaney (ed.)

Newark, Del.: International Reading Association (1996), x, 214 pp.

"Describes the many obstacles involved with literacy promotion in the developing nations of Africa, Asia, and South America. The authors of the 10 articles in this collection share their knowledge and experience of literacy promotion in the developing world, including the challenges faced by those w ... more

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Educación y medios de comunicación en el contexto iberoamericano

José Ignacio Aguaded Gómez, Julio Cabero Almenara (dir.)

La Rábida: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Sede Iberoamericana de la Rábida;Universidad de Huelva;Universidad de Sevilla;Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (1995), 256 pp.

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On Printed Matter and Beyond: Media, Orality and Literacy

Kees Epskamp

Den Haag: Centre for the Study of Education in Developing Countries (CESO) (1995), 136 pp.

"In fact this paperback is about narration and about text in whatever form: spoken, written or printed. Or even better, this book is about the importance of narrative art. It therefore invests all kinds of storytelling, not only the person-to-person oral tradition, but also the mediated forms of sto ... rytelling. Is taken for granted that the radio is giving an extra dimension to the spoken word, like books are giving an extra dimension to the printed word, or the cinema or television are connecting texts and visuals again, like woodcut printings have done in the past. Stories from the oral tradition found their way to the mass media like movies, radio and television. Therefore a wide variety of media will be discussed in this book without showing any preference for one medium or another. The focus of interest is more on storytelling then on de media used to tell stories. It is about the athletics of words and the flexible relatedness between the various media. All these media make use of characters to present stories. Therefore characters with stereotyped traits are present in every medium that makes use of narrative or dramatic elements like comic books, photo novels and soap operas. Mass media have been taking over the role of traditional storytelling. Nowadays, it seems as if instead of listening to an individual storyteller, the global community sits down and have stories told by their favourite radio plays and television series like situation comedies and soap series. Some social scientists strongly reject this change in media consumption. They regret the changing patterns in spending leisure time. They regret for example the supposed decline of reading habits which has been considered as an effect of changing media consumption. And they are not the only ones to regret this. On the one hand there are the educationalists worrying about the latest statistics on literacy rates. These figures certainly do not show any worldwide improvements in literacy and numeracy. And there are the publishers too, who regret the declining reading habits. On a global scale the selling of books and other printed matter is at a decline. With an expanding media market, people are spending their leisure time in a more varied way leaving them less time to read. However, despite this conclusion the educational system in whatever country cannot do without a structured transfer of knowledge. And it seems that the most effective medium within the educational system still is the written word, being presented to the people by printed materials. Learning children as well as adults to read and write is the main preoccupation of as many multilateral aid organisations as national governments." (Pages 10-11) more

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The Effective Use of Radio for Mitigation of Drought in the Sahel

Mary Myers, Gordon Adam, L. Lalanne

Swindon: Cranfield Disaster Preparedness Centre, RMCS Shrivenham (1995), ?? pp.

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Communication Efficiency and Rural Development in Africa: The Case of Cameroon

Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi

Lanham, Md.: University Press of America (1995), xiv, 181 pp.

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Participatory Development Tool Kit: Training Manuals for Agencies and Communities

Deepa Narayan, Lyra Srinivasan

Washington, DC: World Bank (1995), ix, 68 pp.

"Experience gained in many countries shows that the acceptance and use of participatory processes is essential to achieve sustainable development. However, without tools and materials to support participatory approaches, wishes do not translate into reality. This tool kit of visual materials was pre ... pared in response to the repeated demands from people working in the field for materials that can help decision makers, project staff, training institutes, trainers and artists initiate the process of developing their own local materials to address their specific concerns. While the need for greater access to this material is clear, we hesitated for some time in putting out a global tool kit for three main reasons. First, because development is rooted in the social, cultural, economic, and political context of societies and its institutions, visual materials should be a reflection of these realities and hence, of necessity, are location-specific. Can a global tool kit, then, serve a useful purpose? After much field experience, we have concluded that the answer is "yes." Over the last ten years, we have found that participatory training is more likely to take root and spread if local trainers and artists have some visual materials to spark their imaginations and, in some sense, to use as models. Just reading about a "pocket chart" is not sufficient; seeing and handling one makes all the difference in understanding the material, its applications, and possible uses. Second, despite the importance of visual materials, readers should not conclude that community development work requires prepared visuals. Many of the activities described can be conducted without the materials included in this kit. For example, maps can be drawn on the ground, and voting can be done by putting stones in squares scratched in the dirt. Issues surrounding gender analysis can be discussed effectively in a group without any visual aids at all. It is up to practitioners to change, simplify, and adapt the materials to their own needs. At the same time, we have found that visual materials are extremely effective in breaking class, gender, education, literacy, professional training, and status barriers. This is true at both the community and agency levels. At the community level they empower those who are not used to speaking up-such as women and the poor-to express themselves and their ideas through drawing, role plays, songs, stories, puppetry and through manipulating materials that are simple to use." (Preface) more

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How People Use Pictures: An Annotated Bibliography and Review for Development Workers
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Sarah Murray Bradley

London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (1995), 123 pp.

"Visual literacy is a characteristic all human beings inherently possess. Yet because of our cultural and social differences, we interpret visual symbols and representations, such as drawings, pictures, and artefacts, in different ways. How and why people use visual images to represent complex ideas ... more

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Directory of Courses and Materials for Training in Distance Education

Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 4th ed. (1995), iv, 63 pp.

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Drehpunkt Moving Pictures Bulletin

Bonn: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) (1995), 60 pp.

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Drama and Theatre: Communication in Development. Experiences in Western Kenya

Loukie Levert, Opiyo Mumma (eds.)

Nairobi: Kenya Drama Theatre and Education Association (KDEA) (1995), 116 pp.

"This is a booklet with expenences of drama and theatre practices in Western Kenya. Practices that have in common that they were — in one way or another— aiming at development at a “grassroots” level. Something else they have in common is that these expenences are only known by a limited num ... more

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"Our trees and all the wildlife have gone": The destruction of the tropical rain forests, media conflicts, and the struggle for a holistic human development in the Pacific region

Frank Kürschner-Pelkmann, Rowan Callick

Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (1995), 111 pp.

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Mass Media Campaign for Sanitation and Hygiene

Linda Reijerkerk, Lydia Braakman, Tasleem Paracha

Quetta: Local Government and Rural Development Department (LGRDD) Balochistan (1995), 45 pp.

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Case Studies on Promotion of Appropriate Sanitation Systems

Marga J. Alferink

International Water and Sanitation Centre (1995), 57 pp.

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Pictures, People and Power: People-Centred Visual Aids for Development

Bob Linney

London: Macmillan Education (1995), ix, 195 pp.

"Gives practical guidelines to enable non-artists to make their own visual aids such as discussion starters, picture cards, flannelborads and community maps. Includes sections on common pictorial conventions; how to draw and use colour, how to copy and adapt pictures, how to make and use a range of ... more

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Participatory Learning & Action: A Trainer's Guide

Jules N. Pretty, Irene Guijt, Ian Scoones, John Thompson

London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (1995), 267 pp.

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Regarde comment tu me regardes: Techniques d’animation sociale en vidéo

Yves Langlois

Paris: Éditions Charles Léopold Mayer (1995), 126 pp.

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Healthcom II (Communication for Child Survival): Final Evaluation

Douglas W. Wear, Sandra L. Huffman

USAID (1995), 62 pp.

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Handbuch der Telefonseelsorge

Jörg Wieners (ed.)

Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (1995), 272 pp.

"Bisher fehlte eine zuverlässig recherchierte, allgemein zugängliche und übersichtliche Informationsquelle über die Telefonseelsorge (TS). In über 100 regionalen Zentren ist die TS vertreten. 800.000 Anrufe jährlich und 6.000 Mitarbeitende zeigen an, wie viele Menschen unmittelbar mit TS zu tu ... more

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