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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"development communication"”.
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Participatory development communication and child well-being in Northern Ghana : a journey
… Ghana and explores the role of participatory communication in understanding the issues and making life better for their children. Through an ethnographic study of the culture and the community's perception of the needs of children, the field of education and the difficulties of the local …
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The Bretton Woods School of Development communication as an 'agent' of modernisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
A literature study invetigating the role of communication within the Bretton Woods School of Development Communication as an agent to achieve social and economical change in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study presents social and economic change as intended outcomes of modernisation as supported by this …
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The utilization of theatre as a medium for development communication : an examination of the Lesotho experience
… the nature and function of theatre-for-development. The objectives are to place theatre-for-development in the context of development communication theory, and to examine how theatre functions as communication. In the process of this examination a new model of theatrical communication in …
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The Role of public television in social development communication in a post-colonial developing country: a case study of the public televison service in the Republic of Ghana.
… post-colonial history and theories of media, communication, culture and development communication, this thesis considers the agency of Ghana Television in social development by analysing producers’ perceptions of their production system and broadcast outcomes. Ghanaian public television …
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The role of high school department chairpersons in a large urban school system
… curriculum, personnel, management, staff development, communication, and other areas? (2) To what degree do principals, department chairpersons, and teachers believe department chairpersons should be responsible for tasks in the areas of supervision, curriculum, personnel, management, …
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Communication links, Productivity, knowledge transfers, growth and income distribution
In this study, we show that banking development, communication links, productivity and income distribution exert a statistically and economically significant positive impact on local economic growth. This effect becomes more pronounced when the financial sector is more liberalized and deregulated. …
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Free press, torture and the way forward: one journalist's story of reporting in Ethiopia's totalitarian regime
… and consider it in the context of theories of development communication, participatory action, and freedom of speech in East Africa. In telling Tessaye's dramatic story of reporting in the midst of a violent political regime, this thesis asks the reader to consider the dangers of pursuing …
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An Audio-Visual Ethnographic Case Study of International, Rural, Nonprofit Public Relations Geared Towards Sustainable Development
… public relations and its relationship to development communication. It evaluates previous attempts to integrate the two fields for development purposes. The author then offers an alternative approach, a so-called public relations for community development (PRCD) model.</p><p>The PRCD model …
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Participatory communication for community development : the Ghanaian experience
This research pursued a better understanding of development communication in a range of Ghanaian programmes in the education sector. Its focus is the nature of engagements between a range of actors during formulation, implementation and evaluation of the chosen development programmes. Provision of …
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A contribuição do método TEACCH para o atendimento psicopedagógico
Whereas autism is defined as a pervasive developmental disorder and presenting commitments in three major areas of human development: communication, socialization and imagination, which result in learning difficulties, this study has aimed to analyze, under the prospect of a Psychopedagogic look, …
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From avoidance to mitigation : engaged communication to identify and mitigate mining impacts on communities
… the practice of Corporate Social Responsibility. Development Communication is a field research approach focusing on the first phase of the Multitrack Communication Model, the communication-based assessment, which emphasizes engaging in dialogic communication and active listening. Open-ended …
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Shifting Directions: Conceiving, Implementing, and Navigating the Inherent Complexities of Student Recruitment Customer/Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) Systems within Higher Education
… within organizations whose focus is on customer development and service. A CRM is both an organizational approach involving significant human and system processes, as well as a technological intervention. Typically, CRMs have been implemented within commercial enterprises, specifically those …
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Rurality and the people-centric approach to public service delivery in the digital age–a study of South African rurality as a proxy for low- and middle-income country contexts
… of the public value of information and communication technology (ICTs) and the nature of services delivered in low- and middle-income settings. Understanding the intricate relationship between rurality, ICT expansion, and service delivery in low- and middle-income settings is imperative …
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Adult Attachment and Emotion Identification: A Cognitive Evaluation
… adult or infant, attachment bonds aid in the development of beliefs about oneself and others (Collins & Read, 1990; Hazen & Shaver, 1987). Additionally, attachment seems to play a vital role in human development, communication, emotion recognition and comprehension, and the development of …
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Exploration of Computer Game Interventions in Improving Gaze Following Behavior in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
… prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a developmental delay disorder, is now 1 in 110 children in the United States (Rice, 2009), nearing 1% of the population. Therefore, this study looked at ways modern technology could assist these children and their families. One deficit in ASD is the …
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La comunicazione della cooperazione allo sviluppo: gli Enti Pubblici. Analisi discorsive dei Siti Web
… place in the context of a discipline kwown as Communication for Development, sited inside the field of Communication for Social Change, characterized by the use of interpersonal ad mass communication theories and tools, applyied to international development cooperation. Our study aims at …
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Determinants of job satisfaction among Dubai police employees
… opportunity, performance appraisal, professional development, communication, job stress, nationality, sex, shift work and public contact. Accordingly, several policy implications of the findings and recommendations for future research are discussed.
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The usability and effectiveness of a printed information booklet : a survey amongst small-scale rural farmers
… at small-scale rural farmers in a South African developmental context. The main objectives are to establish the target audience’s current knowledge of printed information as well as to examine the elements of the text such as appreciation, comprehension, and acceptance. This study also attempts …
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Coping with uncertainty: perspectives on sustainability of smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
… meaning in the areas of participatory technology development, communication between “hard sciences” and “soft sciences” on soil quality, farmer learning for sustainability on integrated nutrient management and smallholder tea production, and in the use of decision support systems and models to …
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A communication strategy for development initiatives with special reference to a population development case study in North-Eastern Kwazulu-Natal
… the West became actively involved in Third World development, focusing on the diffusion of information and technology, in its plight to persuade the Third World to adopt Western innovations and to change its behaviour accordingly. Growth and success were measured in economic terms and …
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