Rural Adult Education and the Role of Mass Media: A Comparative Analysis of Four Projects

摘要

The paper is meant to compare four rural adult education projects that use media as an important component. It describes each project in some detail, giving special attention to the following characteristics: objectives; organization; selection and recruitment of supervisiors, monitors and participants; use of communication media; feedback and evaluation systems; impact (insofar as evidence is available) and constraints. Such an examination should provide the reader with a general understanding of how each system operates and its strong and weak points within its own context. Equally important for the reader is the judgement of whether the variety of approaches represented here has anything to offer other countries who are facing similar problems in rural education. A more specific purpose of the paper is to provide decision-makers in the Ivory Coast with a brief analysis of their own Extra-Scolaire project, along with three other approaches to adult education (from Tanzania, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic). Such an analysis should help them reexamine their own efforts in the light of evaluation evidence on their own and other cases.