"Chapter One focuses on the story of the Kidz Radio Project, and its vision; children's radio in South Africa (case studies and examples); international children's radio initiatives. Chapter Two is a market-place of ideas from kids, mentors and teachers who work in the field of children's participat
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ion. It includes tips from Kidz Radio participants; tips from older people; thoughts on participation and power-sharing; guidelines on how to create a healthy environment for learning. Chapter Three explores a range of activities that you can use in your Kidz Radio training. For example: confidence-building games and energisers; activities to release creativity; role plays; tools for teaching children interview skills, presentation techniques, and “writing for the ear”. Chapter Four discusses the most popular formats in Kidz Radio: magazine shows (including drama, storytelling, interviews, radio diaries, jokes and phone-ins); and news (how to report the stories that matter most to young people in your community). Chapter Five is a library of articles, toolkits, handbooks and websites about children?s radio – not just in South Africa, but in other parts of the world too." (Page 7)
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"Bua Fela is a tool for broadcasters who create radio for children and with children. According to the authors, Bua Fela offers the following: techniques for involving children in media production; sound advice for starting youth programmes at a community radio station; tips on how to get children t
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alking; skills to give children in your community a voice of their own, to enable them to create their own media and develop their own stories; ways of reporting on, and ethically representing, children in the media; guidance for children to work with other children as a broadcasting team; case studies from the 'Speak Free' project as practical examples." (commbox)
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"El hecho de propiciar y multiplicar los canales de expresión y participación ciudadana de niños, niñas y adolescentes es vital para asegurar su desarrollo y para fortalecer la cultura democrática en la sociedad. Que ellos puedan hacer oír sus voces para expresar sus inquietudes, deseos y nece
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sidades, es clave también para que los adultos que trabajan en áreas relacionadas con sus problemáticas puedan tenerlos en cuenta a la hora de definir las políticas públicas que los afectan. La serie de materiales de capacitación producidos en el marco del proyecto Red de Radios escolares rurales y de frontera se orienta en este sentido al promover, a través del espacio radial, la sensibilización de las comunidades respecto de los temas planteados por los niños, niñas y adolescentes, y la construcción de sus estrategias de transformación social junto con los otros actores de las comunidades implicados en ese proceso." (Página 3)
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"The radio campaign ”I’m a child but I have my rights too!” is run by the organization Plan in Burkina Faso, Togo, Mali, Senegal och Guinea. The campaign contains of five-minute-long reports, taking place in an environment that children is well familiar with, often the African countryside wher
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e the village community is strong and each one has its special place. The campaign entertains and informs (edutainment) and it invites the listener to discuss and reflect. The reports are broadcast in co-operation with local and national radio stations. Children are not only a big target group of the campaign but also important actors during the production and broadcasting. The essay ”Communicating rights for children” is the result of a Minor Field Study in Senegal and Burkina Faso. It is a case study of children´s participation in production and broadcasting of the radio campaign ”I’m a child but I have my rights too!”. The study contains two parts, an analysis and interviews where children and adults share their experiences from participating in the campaign." (Summary)
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"Numéro spécial de la Revue de l'U.E.R. consacré à « la radiotélévision pour les enfants », n° 84B, mars 1964." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1873, topic code 210.30)
"[...] the “comics” industry has never looked back. Not only do strip cartoons occupy an ever greater pkce in papers for adults, but a specialized press has developed for children, and today it is estimated that every American child reads, on an average, between 10 and 12 comic books’ a week.
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In every countrg where the media of expression have come to play an important part in daily life, there has been a similar development in the press catering for children. The film and the radio also count children among their most faithful public. It is therefore not surprising that government authorities as well as educators in many countries have become concerned about the influence that press, film and radio can exert on growing minds. At its Fifth Session, in 1950, Unesco’s General Conference adopted a resolution authorizing the Director-General “to collect and disseminate information on the methods used or contemplated in various countries to protect children from the undesirable influence which may be exerted by the press, the radio and the film, and especially to improve children’s newspapers and literature”. For the purpose of this study we have chosen 12 countries that are characteristic of different civilizations-Belgium, France, the German Federal Republic, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Stales and Uruguay [...] It has not been practicable to examine the position of the children’s press in every country, nor has it been possible to study every paper existing in the countries which we have taken as examples. Only those about which we have adequate information arid which seem to us especially typical have been considered." (Preface)
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