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China Press and Publishing Directory, 1985

Guo-Gan Gao (ed.)

Beijing; London: Modern Press;Longman (1985), 360 pp.

"[...] this directory is the first of its kind ever published in China, the only reference tool so far available in this respect," says Wang Yi, Advisor to the Bureau of Publishing Administration, Ministry of Culture. It contains 2,353 entries of publishers, booksellers, newspapers and periodicals t ... more

Dynamics of Nation-Building with Particular Reference to the Role of Communication: Country Profiles in Historical Perspective

Bangkok: UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific (1984), vii, 202 pp.

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Textbooks in the Philippines: Evaluation of the Pedagogical Impact of a Nationwide Investment

Stephen P. Heyneman, Dean T. Jamison, Xenia Montenegro

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, volume 6, issue 2 (1984), pp. 139-150

"The Philippine government, with the assistance of the World Bank, launched the $US37 million Textbook Project to alleviate the lack of textbooks in the nation's public schools. Prior to this investment, there was an average of 10 pupils for every book available in a given subject. During the first ... year of implementation, the Textbook Project produced ap-proximately 20 million first and second grade textbooks in science, mathematics, and Pilipino. These were distributed nationwide in the 1977-78 school year at a ratio of two pupils per book. In the course of its 5-year duration, the Textbook Project would produce 97 million books covering all subject areas from first grade through high school and would distribute enough so that there would be only two students per book at each grade level in each subject. Books cost an average of US$.55 each (for an average length of 180 pages); the overall program increased per student costs by about 1% (Orivel, 1979). Teacher training in the use of the books was part of the project. These and other aspects of implementation are described in detail by Aprieto (1983). Textbook content was geared closely to the national curriculum and tightly screened for clarity of presentation. Photo and colors were used judiciously. Because books were expected to be in use for up to 5 years, binding and stitching were of high quality. Distribution was made first to regional warehouses, then to municipalities, then to schools. Arrival time and textbook condition in the nation's 100,000 schools were monitored by computer in the capital. The success of the project was due not to simply having new textbooks, but rather to having new textbooks of high quality, reasonably on time, well understood, and well used by teachers. The Evaluation Section of the Textbook Project was formed primarily to investigate the effects of this sizable investment on student achievement. One year before the first sets of textbooks were distributed, an evaluation plan was designed, and instruments were developed to measure these effects. The plan was implemented during the first year of textbook distribution and has been a continuing component of the Textbook Project. The results presented here were obtained from the first-year evaluation data, otherwise known as Phase I. The effects of textbooks on achievement in conjunction with pupil, home, school, and environmental variables were examined, the primary concern being the increment in the achievement of pupils, given the use of the project textbooks, while other influencing factors were controlled." (Page 141) more

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Media for People in Cities: A Study of Community Media in the Urban Context

Peter M. Lewis (ed.)

UNESCO (1984), 239 pp.

"Although rural development, especially in the Third World, is a major concern of UNESCO, emphasis here is upon those uses of media which support community initiatives in urban settings or were introduced to help resolve tensions and problems. Media are not limited to newspapers and broadcasting; th ... more

World Communications: A Handbook

George Gerbner, Marsha Siefert (eds.)

New York: Longman (1984), xv, 527 pp.

"Brings together 54 articles on research and policy on communications in the "three worlds" by scholars and policy makers from the U.S., Western Europe, the socialist countries including the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, and the developing world, including Africa, Asia, and Latin America - 25 countri ... more

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Media Education

Paris: UNESCO (1984), 406 pp.

International Publishing Today: Problems and Prospects

O.P. Ghai, Narendra Kumar

Manuel Salvat (honoured person)

Delhi: Bookman's Club (1984), 237 pp.

"An anthology on international publishing including such aspects as freedom to publish, publishing for human development, international book fairs, piracy, children's publishing, global problems of scholarly publishing, educational publishing, and - specifically for developing countries - training a ... more

The Manipulated Press: A History of Philippine Journalism since 1945

Rosalinda Pineda-Ofreneo

Manila: Cacho Hermanos (1984), xv, 256 pp.

"An in-depth analysis from a global perspective of the problems, the trends, and the forces affecting the post-World War II Philippine press, describing its development and showing how the results were the logical offshoots of broad economic, political and cultural trends. A great deal is said about ... more

Philippine Newspapers: An International Union List

Shiro Saito, Alice W. Mak

Honolulu: University of Hawaii, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Philippine Studies Program (1984), 273 pp.

"Part I lists 432 newspaper titles by place of publication; Part 2 lists their repositories in Australia, Canada, England, the Philippines and the United States. Title index to Part I." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. ... more

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Books and Reading in China

Publishers Association of China

Paris: UNESCO, Book Promotion and International Exchanges Division (1983), 43 pp.

Mass Communication in Thailand

Sanan Padmadin (comp.)

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1983), 80 pp.

"Communication is defined broadly to include relevant material from such areas as agriculture, anthropology, community development, economics, education, law, political science, population, public administration, sociology, social psychology, and urban studies. Types of material covered are books, p ... more

Textbooks in Developing Countries

Philip G. Altbach, Douglas Pearce, S. Gopinathan et al.

Prospects , volume 13, issue 3 (1983), pp. 315-369

"Detailed presentation of all aspects of textbook development, production, and distribution under the specific conditions of developing countries; one regional and two country-specific examples are used to go beyond the general information to show the concrete problems and possible solutions." (GIZ ... more

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The Electronic Era

Cultural Survival Quarterly, volume 7, issue 2 (1983), ?? pp.

Geschichte und Gegenwart der Kommunikationssysteme in Indonesien: Eine Untersuchung zur publizistischen Entwicklung

Bachtiar Aly

Frankfurt am Main; Bern; New York: Peter Lang (1983), 687 pp.

"Die Kommunikationssysteme Indonesiens sind historisch-deskriptiv von den Ursprüngen über die Freiheitsbewegungen bis heute nebst Nachrichtenagenturen und Pressegesetzgebung behandelt. Die Medienstrukturen Presse, Hörfunk, Film und Fernsehen werden auf ihre publizistischen, politischen, kulturell ... more

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Television in Taiwan

Daniel G. Ross

Taiwan: Fu Jen University (1983), iii, 181 pp.

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Communication Policy and Planning in Singapore

Eddie C. Y. Kuo, Peter S. J. Chen

London: Kegan Paul;East-West Communication Institute (1983), 111 pp.

"After providing an overview of the Singapore society and its communication system as background, the coauthors examine the main aspects of communication policy in Singapore, and conclude with a case study of communication planning at the Radio and Television Singapore and the Singapore Family Plann ... more

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A Study of Ten Selected Philippine Community Newspapers

Crispin C. Maslog

Media Asia, volume 10, issue 4 (1983), pp. 192-202

"A major imperative for rural newspapers is their long-term survival in the face of limited advertising revenues and low subscriptions. Crispin Maslog’s analysis of ten successful community newspapers shows that not only is it possible for rural newspapers to survive in the long run, but that the ... more