"This book records and interprets, in a narrative form, how groups of villagers and fisherfolk in Manila (Philippines), in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu (India) and in the states of Tlaxacala, Oaxaca and Michoacan and in a suburb of Mexico City (all in Mexico) tried to bring about social change through
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what one may call "people's communication". "People's communication" is a mode of communication which depends for its efficacy on people's energies rather than on technology." (Introduction)
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"Provides background documentation to the special conference of Ministers of Education in Africa, “Textbook and Library Development in Africa”, held under the auspices of the Overseas Development Administration in Manchester in 1991." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Afr
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ica, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1871)
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"This book explores the variety of initiatives that have emerged the world over in the past decade, the challenges they face in making their voices heard, as well as the internal debates and problems that must be resolved in order to move towards a true democratization of video and television." (Med
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ia Asia 22:1, 1995, page 60)
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"Many countries are now reporting data which indicate high access to immunization services (good BCG, DPT1, and 0PV1 rates) but lower complete coverage, due to dropouts. Dropouts reflect a problem in one or both of two areas: service barriers (such as missed opportunities to vaccinate); and consumer
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barriers (such as lack of correct information, fear of side effects, or competing belief systems). In other countries immunization program mangers are discovering that it is more difficult to achieve and maintain the final ten percent or 20 percent of coverage than it was to achieve the initial 60 percent or even 80 percent. In each of these cases communication has a role to play. Communication offers practical strategies for reducing both service and consumer barriers to complete coverage and for sustaining appropriate immunization behavior among these groups over the long term." (Abstract)
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"Discusses how Mozambican textbook policies have changed in order to allow the integration of the private sector into the processes of editing, printing and distribution of books." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 699)
"An overview of the state of textbook publishing in Mozambique, including recommendations as they relate to policies of the government-owned publishing house Editora Escolar." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 705)