Transactional Radio Instruction: Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Conflict Zones [Paperback]

This book offers an important addition to the growing literature on education in emergencies. In war situations or in the wake of natural disasters, childrens education is often significantly disrupted. This book demonstrates how the authors used radio and mobile technologies to improve educational outcomes for over 20,000 displaced and out-of-school children in northeast Nigeria at the height of the Boko Haram insurgency. Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) programs typically interact with a functional classroom teacher. However, the transactional radio instruction strategy presented provides high-quality, safe, and sensitive education in war-torn societies, where there are no schools or teachers. Summarizing the research and lessons learned from a USAID-funded Technology Enhanced Learning for All (TELA) project in Boko Haram-ravaged northeast Nigeria, the book describes in detail an education-in-emergency strategy based on a whole of community approach, with radio and mobile tablets at its core.   

Chapter 1: A Brief Social History of Education in Nigeria.- Chapter 2: Nigerias Educational Challenges.- Chapter 3: Setting the Context: Educational Challenges In North-Eastern Nigeria.- Chapter 4: Where Schools are Broken: Radio for Education in Crises Societies.- Chapter 5 : Where there is no school: A new Transactional Model of Radio Instruction.- Chapter 6: Transactional Radio Instruction: A Tale of Two Radio Programs.- Chapter 7: Monitoring and Evaluation of Learning Outcomes.- Chapter 8: Making Education Accessible to all: Postscript.

Dr. Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob is a visiting international scholar in International Studies at Dickinson College, United States. He previously worked as Program Chair and Dean at the American University of Nigeria. Jacob has consulted, taught, and published l#'