"This study investigated the effectiveness of civic education radio programmes on the behaviour of the youth in Freetown, Sierra Leone and how assessing and evaluating them could restructure the approach in order to yield the desired goals of supplementing the conventional school systems. “There i
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s no significant relationship between civic education radio programmes and the behaviour of the youth in Freetown Sierra Leone”, was the hypothesis that guided the research; and the Chi-squire test formula was used to test this hypothesis. The study was anchored on the Uses and Gratifications theory, the social responsibility theory and the social learning theory. A descriptive research method was used to implement this study. The youth of Freetown, from ages 15 to 35 years, as of 2021, a total of 248,508 was its population. Using the Taro Yamane’s formula for sampling, 393 respondents were arrived at for the sample size. The copies of the questionnaire were distributed to these respondents; and 11 oral interview questions were drawn as guide for data collection. The Cronbach’s alpha reliability test was used, with 0.73 result, and simple frequency/percentage analysis was used for analysis. The major findings of the study included: Civic education radio programmes were available for the consumption of the youth in Freetown. However, they had little or no effect on their behaviour as there were rampant uncivil behaviour, violence during elections, and public property vandalism amongst others. The work concluded that with continuous investigation, analysis and assessments, these programmes could be restructured to meet the desired impact on the behaviour of the youth. The study recommended, amongst others, that transistor radios be provided for the youth who could not afford digital and internet facilities, the designing and production of civic education programmes must involve trained personnel and the targeted audience together, and that civic education radio programmes should be included in the curricula of the schools." (Abstract)
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"Education has been identified as one of the most important ways to achieve national development. With 3 million nonliterate adults in Lagos State, the commercial nerve center of the nation, radio becomes a veritable medium to teach such adults who, for several reasons including economic, do not hav
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e the opportunity of formal schooling. The study assessed the effectiveness of educational radio broadcasting for adult literacy in Lagos State, Nigeria. Five hundred and five (505) adult learners participating in Lagos is Learning Project were purposively selected. Findings showed that a majority (62.4%) of the study participants used the instructional radio program, Mooko Mooka, to prepare for classroom instruction, while 53.5% of the study participants used the program for revision. Findings also revealed that 40.6% of them listened to the program three times per week and this implied that frequency of exposure could influence literacy skill. The study concluded that radio instructional techniques were effective in promoting adult literacy and therefore recommended that the radio listening sessions should be increased as part of efforts to reduce adult illiteracy in the country. Also, community media centers should be created in different communities to encourage group listening where learners can be supervised." (Abstract)
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"La IVème Commission a pour objet de confronter les recherches de professionnels de la radio-télévision éducative et de divers spécialistes dont les disciplines intéressent son activité — Les trois thèmes envisagés: 1) Terminologie — 2) Information sur la recherche — 3) Méthodes de c
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ontrôle et d'évaluation des résultats — Parmi les animateurs de cette Commission, on peut citer des délégués, venant de: Niger - Israël — Les conclusions et recommandations de cette Commission portent sur les points suivants: extension de l'échange et de l'information sous toutes les formes — Mise en forme de certains résultats afin d'exploiter certaines données nouvellement réunies — Renforcer la collaboration internationale — L'U.E.R. et l'Unesco, et leur rôle à jouer dans ce domaine." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1918, topic code 04, 210.331.4, 410.331.4)
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"How effective is television as an educational medium and how useful are researches carried out to date in this field? — The answers to these two questions are to a large extent conditioned by the nature of the audience and of the variables, such as the orientation and the structure of a nation's
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general educational plan — In Britain, where educational radio has constantly been progressing, the need for such studies grows all the greater — Thus Dr. Trenaman's survey is of considerable importance, although it deals only with adults — The experiments carried out by the author determine the factors in televiewers which determine whether a programme is effective: understanding, knowledge, interests and attitude, as well as the factors in the programme itself (in this case TV programmes) which contribute to a positive message." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2322, topic code 010)
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"L'expérience indienne d'éducation sociale au moyen de la télévision pour groupes — Projet réalisé en 1960 par la « All India Radio ' en collaboration avec l'Unesco — L'expérience s'est déroulée à New Delhi — 66 centres communautaires furent choisis dont 20 devaient servir pour étu
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dier, en détail, les réactions des adultes à la télévision — Les trois objectifs de base fixés sont: augmenter de façon appréciable les connaissances et les informations des membres du club — Influencer l'attitude de ces membres du télé-club au sujet de certaines questions relatives à des sujets traités dans le programme — Suggérer une façon d'agir — Le but de ces programmes vise la formation de bons citoyens — Résultats de l'expérience — Remarques — Désir d'une utilisation élargie du télé-club." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 430, topic code 453)
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"La première campagne expérimentale d'alphabétisation par la radio a eu lieu au Niger du mois de novembre 1960 au mois de mai 1961, utilisant la méthode s Chicot-Meyer » déjà expérimentée au Cameroun et au Tchad, dont le but est l'adaptation de cette méthode aux besoins propres de l'Etat N
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igérien: I. Statistiques sur les inscriptions aux cours — II. Résultats collectés dans les rapports bi-mensuels: notation et assiduité des élèves — HI. Facteurs ayant déterminé l'assiduité — IV. Observations des moniteurs sur les leçons — V. Conclusions: d'ordre général et sur les divers points: le recrutement des élèves et leur assiduité, le problème féminin, le jour et horaires du cours, contenu des cours." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1108, topic code 210.331.4)
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