Discussed in brief is the popularity of wall posters as a supplement to educational radio broadcasts in Kenya. Reproductions of several posters are included. (LS)

A look at the evaluation report of the radio/correspondence study program established in Kenya. (HB)

The radio program has been particularly effective in upgrading teachers, who comprise 90 per cent of the enrollees. (SP)

Describes language-by-radio programs in Senegal, Rwanda, Kenya, and Burundi as effort to utilize radio as an educational tool for children and adults. Inservice programs for teachers and English-as-a-second-language programs are also broadcast. (Author/BK)

Instructional radio is a relatively low cost technology which can deliver effective educational programs to any school capable of receiving broadcasts, however remote the school might be. This paper explores the Radio Language Arts Project (RLAP), an application of instructional radio technology to the teaching of English as a foreign language.…

This study surveyed parents, headmasters, and home economics teachers from 12 primary schools in Nairobi to collect information on the extent of radio use in home economics teaching, the reasons for use or non-use, and parental attitudes toward educational radio programs in general. Upper primary (standard 4-7) home economics teachers completed a…

A 5-year research and development program, known as the Radio Language Arts Project (RLAP), was conducted in Kenya to develop, implement, and test the effectiveness of an instructional system that uses radio to teach English as a foreign language in the first three grades of primary school. The initial project year was spent in establishing and…

Six papers describe use of the radio for in-school and out-of-school formal education in this first volume of working papers on how radio can and is being used for education and development. Part one on in-school education contains: a Nicaraguan project to teach mathematics to first grade children (including curriculum, materials, teacher…

Describes the development and use of educational broadcasting, notably radio, in Kenya since its independence. Published and unpublished reports, a 1978 survey, numerous interviews with educational radio and television officials, mass media seminars, and field visits to schools and broadcast facilities are used to analyze the major projects. (CHC)

This report contains one man's impressions of the state of adult literacy education in several countries of Africa and in India. The first country reported on is Ethiopia, where signs of a capitalist society were evident in that officially Marxist country, where literacy education was still a priority in the midst of a waning famine. Ethiopia had…

The Radio Language Arts Project, a five-year research and development effort funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development in cooperation with the Kenya government to systematically assess the costs and benefits of intensive use of radio as the principal vehicle for primary level English instruction in rural areas of Kenya, is described…