"Materials concerning the use of radio and mass communications for non-formal education and development are listed in a selected annotated bibliography, intended for those actively involved in non-formal education and development. Three sections contain annotated entries (which range from 1972-1983)
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, each of which includes source information and notes languages in which publications are available. Section 1, on radio in non-formal education, lists 118 documents from 25 nations, including case studies; samples of scripts; pretest and survey instruments; and information on planning, organizing, financing, broadcast techniques, theoretical considerations, historical background, and evaluation. The programs listed range from local or regional campaigns to national mass campaigns, and from special non-formal education programs to highly structured radiophonic schools which supplement or even take the place of formal education. The second section describes 10 newsletters, from England, the United States, Australia, Spain, and Singapore, which focus exclusively on radio education or which regularly contain articles of interest on the use of radio and other communications media for formal and non-formal education. Section 3 lists 11 organizations, in Colombia, the Philippines, Gambia, England, Spain, the Netherlands, Nepal, Chile, and the United States, which can provide additional information for those working in educational radio broadcasting and development communication." (https://eric.ed.gov)
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"The final report of a regional seminar on reducing the costs of school textbooks in Africa, which took place in Bujumbura, Burundi in 1983, and focussed on raising the awareness of government organizations about textbooks, what measures should be taken regarding the importation of textbooks, the ma
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nufacture and distribution of textbooks, training in the book industry, and regional cooperation. There are contributions from several countries including Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Guinea, Madagascar, Niger, Togo and former Zaïre." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1877)
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"Detailed presentation of all aspects of textbook development, production, and distribution under the specific conditions of developing countries; one regional and two country-specific examples are used to go beyond the general information to show the concrete problems and possible solutions." (GIZ
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"A companion volume to Ralph Staiger’s “Roads to Reading” (1979), now inevitably rather dated, but still provides helpful guidelines and strategies for planning successful reading campaigns." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2223)
"The initials SITE stand for Satellite Instructional Television Experiment. In this publication, commissioned by Unesco, the accent is on the word experiment. It is a summary and a critical assessment of the majority of the research studies relating to the whole complex operation, not an evaluation
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of the programme itself. The SITE project involved in- and out-of-school instruction and participation; it had complex managerial, technical and economic problems. Research had also to be organized at the formative, operational and summative stages of the experiment. This study tries to cover each of these dimensions. SITE as a project had about 50 research studies as essential components, the reports of which comprise 19 volumes. They are of especial interest to social scientists concerned with the developmental impact of modern communication techniques in rural areas and they are particularly relevant in view of the present proposal to establish a more permanent satellite-based communication system in India in the near future. However, it is unlikely that the totality of the research carried out on SITE will reach a wide audience, if only because of the considerable volume In this publication, of data produced. It therefore seemed useful 19 Unesco to commission a summary of the research findings and to present these, not as a retrospective evaluation of the project, but as a digest of what was discovered. Professor M. S. Gore of the TATA Institute in India - an eminent sociologist - was asked to undertake this formidable task. He was asked, first of all, to reduce the 19 volumes to a document of manageable size, while retaining what was essential and of universal interest. In addition, he was asked to look at the "SITE studies" from the point of view of their methodological adequacy and hence the validity of their findings. In his report he has also tried to answer in some degree the more general question as to whether the SITE experience has been worthwhile and can perhaps be transferable in suitable circumstances to other nations and regions." (Preface)
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"One of a series of background materials prepared for the World Congress on Books held in London in 1982. Deals with the various stages of textbook publishing, which is the mainstay of the book industry in most less developed countries. Discusses the difficulties faced by both government and private
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sector textbook publishing organizations, and examines methods of overcoming these difficulties." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 236)
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"A UNESCO mission report whose purpose was to assist the Sierra Leone Ministry of Education in the review of existing facilities for the preparation, production, printing and distribution of textbooks in Sierra Leone (particularly those for primary schools); identify any inherent weaknesses and reco
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mmend appropriate solutions; and to assist the setting up of a National Book Development Council, and preparing its administrative and management plan in order for it to become operational." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 919)
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"This volume is composed of an introduction and seven chapters, all of which are relevant to the educational use of mass media in Less Developed Countries (LDCs). Each chapter deals with one of the salient issues that LDCs educators and decision-makers inevitably encounter when they think about usin
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g mass media to further the country's education and development. These problems are: (1) the actual potentialities of audiovisual media, (2) the choice between or combination of network broadcasting and local broadcasting; (3) the use of educational mass media for curriculum improvement; (4) the impact of radio on education and development; (5) the choice of language(s) for instruction and radio's role in language teaching; (6) the possible expansion of educational TV in the 1980s; and (7) the appropriateness of each medium for use in LDCs. The original contributions were slightly modified and shortened." (Page 3)
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