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Transactional Radio Instruction: Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Conflict Zones

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxvi, 219 pp.

Contains 61 illustrations

ISBN 978-3-030-32369-1 (ebook); 978-3-030-32368-4 (print); 978-3-030-32370-7 (print)

Signature commbox: 141:30-Education 2020

"This book demonstrates how the authors used radio and mobile technologies to improve educational outcomes for over 20,000 displaced and out-of-school children in northeast Nigeria at the height of the Boko Haram insurgency. Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) programs typically interact with a functional classroom teacher. However, the transactional radio the instruction strategy presented provides high-quality, safe, and sensitive education in war-torn societies, where there are no schools or teachers. Summarizing the research and lessons learned from a USAID-funded Technology Enhanced Learning for All (TELA) project in Boko Haram-ravaged northeast Nigeria, the book describes in detail an education-in-emergency strategy based on a "whole of community" approach, with radio and mobile tablets at its core." (Publisher description)
1 A Brief Social History of Education in Nigeria, 1
2 Nigeria's Educational Challenges, 19
3 Setting the Context: Educational Challenges In North-Eastern Nigeria, 31
4 Where Schools are Broken: Radio for Education in Crises Societies, 53
5 Where there is no school: A new Transactional Model of Radio Instruction, 75
6 Transactional Radio Instruction: A Tale of Two Radio Programs, 103
7 Monitoring and Evaluation of Learning Outcomes, 121
8 Making Education Accessible to all: Postscript, 211