Media Education in Third World

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Media as promoters of educational level and awareness. 3. Establishing electronic network for educational programmes. 4. Satellite experiences of some Asian countries: electronic media. 5. Learning strategies of some Third World Countries. 6. Correspondence-cum-contact programmes for rapid educational transformation. 7. Establishment of corollary institutions. 8. Funding--a critical review of preparatory requirements and low cost strategies--media education as balancing act. 9. Decentralization--priority areas. 10. Administrative hierarchy. Bibliography. Index.

From the preface: "The book offers a comprehensive and analytical discussion of the global media educational and ICT (Information and Computer Technology) strategies being pursued in a number of third world countries including Asia, South America and Africa. The discussion includes how initially the technologies of the first world (US, Japan and the Europe) guided the formulation of media technologies and educational strategies of the third world and how they failed also to deliver. The book offers in essence that the educational strategies of each third world country could be formulated based on its own socio-economic, cultural and political settings and could not be copied straight from the east or the west."