Rural education radio not only provides agricultural instruction but also allows peasants to talk as much as instructors, creating the conditions for constant interchange between the lowest and highest strata of the nation. (DE)

A UNESCO survey on the use of the broadcasting media in combating adult illiteracy indicates a steady increase in their use. (AG)

In an effort to reach widely dispersed Indian children and provide them with an early education that will encourage them to enroll in conventional schools after the fourth grade, Jesuit missionaries in a mountainous rural area of Mexico have provided a radio school since 1955. The evaluation reported here reveals that the radio schools have been…

Development of the nonformal education program in the country of Mali (Africa), which focuses on the promotion of literacy and functional literacy through the press and radio, is described. (TA)

Based upon the success of three smaller radio study campaigns, a program for a preventive health campaign was planned to directly improve the lives of Tanzania's rural inhabitants. Elements in the campaign included: a national coordianating committee, radio programs, printed materials, trained study group leaders, leader's manuals, and…

Outlines Project Move Ahead, "a public school program designed to improve communication skills and enhance the self-image of migrant and permanently based children in agrarian communities. (LS)

Describes the Katherine School of the Air, an educational institution that provides children isolated in Australia's Northern Territory (the outback) with an educational program via daily two-way radio lessons, correspondence courses, and regularly scheduled visits by air. (MLH)

The objectives, target group, publicity methods, training procedures, leader recruitment, financing, activities, and program evaluation of a radio study group campaign in Tanzania are described. (AG)

The application of lessons gained from rural experience with development communications to the problems of delivering social services to the poorer segments of the urban areas is described in a report on the squatter upgrading project in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. A Project Support Communications Unit established to provide communication…

The Radio Mathematics Project was established to design, implement, and evaluate a prototype system of teaching elementary mathematics using radio as the major medium of instruction. The project, working in rural and urban primary schools in Nicaragua, presents daily mathematics lessons in second and third grade classrooms. Each lesson has a 30…

Radio has several advantages which give it great potential for improving living conditions in the rural areas of developing countries. It is the most universal mass communication medium and is presently able to support effective, low-cost local development programs. At present, the five most effective utilization strategies are the following: 1)…

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…

Dillingham High School, through Project SERVE (Student Education Radio: Village Extension), intends to bring 25 rural schools and villages in the Bristol Bay area of Alaska together utilizing educational radio. The objectives of the three-year project are to: (1) increase the number of graduating students choosing broadcasting as a vocation by…

The establishment of the Nigerian National Commission for Nomadic Education in 1989 created wider opportunities for an estimated 9.3 million nomads living in Nigeria to acquire literacy skills. This commission was struck to address low literacy rates among pastoral nomads and migrant fishermen, which put literacy rates at 0.28 percent and 20…

A group study method was selected for Tanzanian educational radio campaigns based on the theory that adults are more motivated to learn when they are actively involved. Groups of approximately 12 adults and a group adviser followed the pattern of reading, listening, discussing, decision making, and action. The instructional materials used…