At 11:47 AM -0800 2/27/04, Kishor Pradhan wrote: > Though the radio station is owned by Madanpokhara VDC, it is managed by > a media committee board. The management board has 17 members from > various fields, groups and organisations in the village, thus very well > representing the various communities in Palpa.
I hated to snip that long and lovely post from Kishor Pradhan. He preaches from the same choir book from which I too have been singing. The one area that he might have added more of was the merits of radio in the field of education. ICT now allows the easy capture of radio programs broadcast far and wide. We all know that. What we don't know enough about is the value of micro broadcasting - how much value is added when the content of the broadcast is created by the students? how much value when the listener is the grandmother, uncle, city official? Like the Clint Eastwood example, if there is value in watching your child stumble through a piano recital, how much value is there to hearing her, and her classmates, on the radio? I'm told by experts that the largest single factor in the learning process is "family involvement". I think that's true. I also think the second largest factor is "community value". Radio helps to knit the community, not just for purposes of selling buffaloes or providing weather forecasts. But also to promote the classroom -for the lucky ones, inside four walls. For those less fortunate, inside their home next to their one dollar radio. How much value for fund raising, including tax collection, if the community, the school and the student are all connected by way of the radio? For those interested in pursuing this entire subject far more comprehensively, please write to me directly. I want to hold a Symposium on this in Eugene, Oregon in August. It has a lot of promise and needs some smart people to knit it together ---in a way where RESULTS, not talk, is the end game. -- John W. Hibbs http://www.bfranklin.edu http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: In Eugene, Oregon 541 343 9389 cell 619 804 0621 ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
