Assessment of the variability in content specifications of educational broadcasting curricular in Nigerian universities

"Educational Broadcasting" is a course studied in universities and it promotes national development by providing widespread quality education where classroom teaching-and-learning is difficult/impossible, like during the Covid-19 lockdowns. By teaching the course with rich curricula, Nigerian universities would be heeding Development Media Theory's (DMT) call for broadcasters (and their trainers) to collaborate with the government to enhance national development. The study adopted survey and content analysis to examine the availability of "Educational Broadcasting" in selected Nigerian universities and the curricular variability. We analysed data with simple percentages and ANOVA and findings show a high level of "Educational Broadcasting" availability and rich variability in curricular content specifications. Broadcasting educators in Nigerian universities partner with the government to promote quality education through the proper training of educational broadcasters proposed by DMT. The study calls on all communication studies departments in Nigerian universities to offer educational broadcasting with significant enrichment on the prescribed benchmark.

The Economic Hour: Community and Educational Broadcasting in the Huancavelica Region, Peru

This article is the result of the execution of the Cultural Extension project entitled "The economic hour"; carried out by the members of the monovalent group "Elinor Ostrom" of the Professional School of Economics (EPE) of the Faculty of Business Sciences (FCE) of the National University of Huancavelica (UNH) in 2019. The main objective of this project was carrying out social service work to the Huancavelica community and provide important information on economic, political, environmental and social situations through a community radio program. A methodological approach of participation-action was used with a specific and contextualized speech model for the elaboration of each radio program during four months. Likewise, the results obtained showed a favourable impact and a high level of satisfaction of the different groups of listeners. Finally, we conclude that the execution of the project involved a successful experience of social rapprochement between the university and society. In this sense, we are sure that this experience will generate greater dialogue and create similar projects for the benefit of our communities.

Theodor Adorno, Paul Lazarsfeld, and the Public Interest Mandate of Early Communications Research, 1935–1941

Through detailed archival analysis of personal letters, this article examines how the “public interest” mandate of the Communications Act of 1934 inspired the formation of the Princeton Radio Research Project (PRRP), and influenced Paul Lazarsfeld’s development of two-step flows and media effects research. Buried in federal records, a post-Act Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Pursuant that mandated analysis of educational broadcasting additionally turns out to be the causative reason that Theodor Adorno was brought to America by the Rockefeller Foundation. Crucial to the intellectual history of media and communication theory, Lazarsfeld invited Adorno not only to develop techniques to inform educational music study, but to strategically formulate advocacy language for the media reform movement to help noncommercial media obtain frequency licenses. The limits and pressures exerted by the FCC Pursuant influenced the trajectory of the PRRP research, and consequently, the methodological investments of Communication Studies.

Cultural and communicative formulae as a communication mechanism underlying the civilizational community

The author examines cultural and communicative formulae (CCF) and cultural concepts, noting that they are embedded in the communicative acts characteristic of representatives of a particular civilization. These communicative acts often contain cultural and communicative formulae. The article analyzes the relationship of the CCF with the most important communication tasks that ensure the stability of the civilizational community. Within the framework of the communicative direction, the author says that CCF are involved in a whole group of important functions: informing, describing events happening around; educational, broadcasting socially significant information; regulatory, broadcasting normative information; socially manipulative, consisting in the desire to control the audience; recreational entertainment function. The materials of the article can become the basis for methodological support of the educational process in the fields of International Relations and Linguistics.

Television, Teenagers and VD: An Insight into the Advisory Process behind Schools and Colleges’ Broadcasting in the Early 1970s in the UK

This article looks at the forgotten history of a television programme on venereal disease for teenagers broadcast in the United Kingdom (excluding Scotland) in 1973. It was produced by BBC Schools and Colleges and deemed to be very successful. The production was one of a trio of programmes entitled ‘Health Hazards’, from the series Twentieth Century Focus, which reflected issues relevant to teenagers over a period of social change from the 1960s to the 1970s. The archive record is lean on schools programming and this programme is very well documented from concept to delivery, representing a discrete, but ephemeral, intervention into 1970s sex educational broadcasting. This research contributes something new about public health and sexual education in the period immediately before AIDS.

The Political Economic Structure of Early Media Reform Before and After the Communications Act of 1934

This paper examines how early media reform work evolved from political activism into a system-building advocacy campaign in support of Schools of the Air between 1930 and 1940. Calling upon archival work that focuses on 1935–1940 records, it examines how prominent activist groups the National Committee for Education by Radio (NCER) and the National Advisory Council for Radio in Education (NACRE) shifted their strategic approaches to adjust to the “public interest” mandate of the Communications Act of 1934. Though scholarship has chronicled disagreements between the NCER and NACRE over how to best support educational broadcasting, a dialectical interplay emerged after the act during the New Deal due to the influence of the Federal Radio Education Committee (FREC). FREC inspired A.G. Crane of the NCER to build the Rocky Mountain Radio Council (RMRC). The RMRC was the first sustainable educational media network, and the group coined the term public broadcasting. While the Communications Act signaled the end of the first wave of media activism, the policy also inspired reformers to develop a new system-building strategy that set the groundwork for NPR and PBS.

Kindergarten of the Air: From Australia to the world

This article considers the radio programme for kindergarten-aged children that the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) launched during the Second World War and continued to broadcast until 1985. Kindergarten of the Air, thought to be the ‘first of its kind in the world’, was to inspire interest from, and similar programmes throughout, the British empire and beyond. The article examines the imperial and international broadcasting networks that enabled the exchange of ideas and initiatives within the field of educational broadcasting, and the export of one of Australia’s most successful radio initiatives, while also considering the willingness of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to be influenced by a dominion broadcaster.

Rádio educativa do Piauí: a serviço de quê e de quem?

Analisa a Rádio Educativa do Piauí (REPI) mediante o estudo de sua audiência, tipo de público-ouvinte, programação e conteúdo educativo e formas de falseamento da informação radiofônica, na perspectiva da Teoria Crítica, buscando, ainda, contextualizar a radiodifusão educativa no panorama da radiodifusão brasileira. Abstract This article analyses the State of Piauí educational radio, utilizing the Critic Theory as a framework. It focuses on the size and kind of its audience, the educational contents of its programmes, and forms of informational deceitfulness. It is also confronted to the general brazilian educational broadcasting into the whole national broadcasting system. Résumé Cet article fait Vanalyse de Ia Rádio Educativa do Piauí (REPI) à partir de l 'étude de son audience, type de public-auditeur, programmation et contenu éducatif et manières defaussètéde l 'Information radiophonique sous la perspective de Ia Théorie Critique, en cherchant la mise en contexte de Ia radiodijfusion éducative aupanorama de Ia radiodiffusion brésilienne. Resumen Analiza la Radio Educativa de Piauí (REPI) mediante el estúdio de su audiência, tipo de público-oyente, programación y contenido educativo y formas de falseamiento de la información radiofônica, en la perspectiva de Ia Teoria Crítica, buscando, aún contextualizar la radiodifusión educativa en el contexto brasileño.