RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

Miroljub Jevtović

TELEVISION IN THE SERVICE OF EDUCATION

and a C omponent of National, Political, Economic and C ultural D evelopment

С ommunication problems have been discussed at several non-aligned gatherings. On such occasions, television as a whole has been the subject Here, we аге interested specificallv in educational TV. Not until the 'i'hird world conference on educational TV, inParis in 1967, was the the start being made on educational TV in our countries discussed. A review of more recent documents of international meetings on television shows a growing body of information on the educational function of television in a large number of the non-aligned countries. Without going into the details of this information, the evidence is of a major effort being made for television to have an impact in education. This leads us to place the focus of this talk on Vugoslavia’s experience in developing educational television. The difficulties to televisiohs better and broader, and, hence, more effective use for educational ends will be especially singled out A better appreciation of how we can best cooperate needs, first, a good look at the puestion; Are there апу probLems in education specificallv characteristic of the non-aligned countries? Our countries аге part of a world caught up as a whole in a crisis of education. The complex educational function ofTV in апу society cannotbe adequately understood, it has been established, except against the background of the countr/s educational and economic level. Evident everywhere is the immense

Reportsubmitted to the Round Table at the First TV Festival of the Non -Aligned Countries, October 1979, Herceg Novi, Vugoslavia

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