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This book offers an important addition to the growing literature on education in emergencies. In war situations or in the wake of natural disasters, children’s education is often significantly disrupted. This book demonstrates how the authors used radio a
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Transactional Radio Instruction
Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob · Margee Ensign
Transactional Radio Instruction Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Conflict Zones
Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob Dickinson College Carlisle, PA, USA
Margee Ensign Dickinson College Carlisle, PA, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-32368-4 ISBN 978-3-030-32369-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32369-1 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
This book is dedicated to the children all over the world whose lives and whose education have been disrupted by the violence of adult conflicts.
Foreword
Transactional Radio Instruction: Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Conflict Zones is a very important addition to the literature on education in conflict zones, and in educationally impoverished areas of the world. Project TELA (Technology Enhanced Learning for All) was launched in Yola, Nigeria, home of the American University of Nigeria, at the height of the Boko Haram crisis in Northeast Nigeria. With funding from USAID, the project was prompted by the sudden movement of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people fleeing to the relative safety of Yola to escape an expanding Boko Haram insurgency. These people generally lived in the community of Yola rather than in the camps established by the Nigerian government and international donors. Many of those who fled were able to benefit from a unique partnership between the American University of Nigeria and a local peace organization, the Adamawa Peace Initiative, which the university had earlier helped to cr
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