ERIC Number: ED288513
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 94
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Development Communication Report No. 50-55, Summer 1985-Autumn 1986.
Development Communications Report, n50-51 Sum-Aut 1985 n52-55 Win-Aut 1986
Six issues of the newsletter "Development Communication Report" focus primarily on the use of communication technologies in developing nations to educate their people. The issues included in this collection are: (1) Summer 1985, which highlights agricultural, health, and educational projects that have proven successful; (2) Autumn 1985, which concentrates on health communications; (3) Winter 1986, which focuses on the purpose of visuals, how to use them in training, and how people's understanding can be improved through appropriate exposure to and use of such materials; (4) Spring 1986, which discusses development communication projects in developing nations, including the People's Republic of China, South and Central America, Swaziland, Puerto Rico, India, the Gambia, Malaysia, and Bolivia; (5) Summer 1986, which focuses on broadcast technologies, including communication satellites and radio; and (6) Autumn 1986, which features articles on the innovative use of well-planned, well-integrated, and well-tested print materials in developing nations, including photonovels, rural newspapers, and posters. Reviews of recent publications, announcements of development-related conferences and courses, and a subject index of past issues are also provided. (RP)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Comics (Publications), Communications Satellites, Contraception, Developing Nations, Distance Education, Educational Radio, Educational Television, English Instruction, Health Education, Information Dissemination, Information Networks, Literacy, Mass Media, Microcomputers, Nutrition Instruction, Primary Health Care, Rural Development, Story Telling, Visual Aids
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Agency for International Development (IDCA), Washington, DC. Clearinghouse on Development Communication.
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