Authors:
Provides an important addition to the growing literature on education in emergencies
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
Describes an education-in-emergency strategy based on a “whole of community” approach
Summarizes the research and lessons learned from a USAID-funded Technology Enhanced Learning for All (TELA) project in Boko Haram-ravaged northeast Nigeria
Buy it now
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.
Table of contents (8 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
-
Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA
Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, Margee Ensign
About the authors
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 extensively on the intersections between communication interventions, violent extremism, war and peace.
Dr. Margee Ensign is the 29th President of Dickinson College. Prior to moving to Dickinson, she was the President of the American University of Nigeria and led the Adamawa Peace Initiative. She is a widely published scholar whose work focuses primarily on the challenges of international development and the implications of development assistance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transactional Radio Instruction
Book Subtitle: Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Conflict Zones
Authors: Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, Margee Ensign
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32369-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32368-4Published: 29 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32371-4Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32369-1Published: 28 April 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 219
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 60 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media and Communication, African Culture, Culture and Technology, Alternative Education