RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

the commitment of the decision-makers in program-production policy and the activity of those for whom educational programming is intended. Among programes for teaching reading and writing, the Italian, ’Tts Never Too Late”, and others from M exico, Jamaica, Nigeria, theArab and other countries, including Yugoslavia and, of course, the large-scale experiment via satellite which made the written word accessible to thousands in the villages of India, have attracted most note. The body of experience available to us already allows, perhaps, the following statement Television offers the fundamental advantage of being able to place the written word and fundamentals of’science, culture and art, work and daily habits, directly before the individual. It is a mistake not to incorporate television fully into social action as the main tool for teaching reading and writing to adults and as an aid in educational processes of all Mnds and at all levels. TV used only as a teaching aid for conventional classroom methods leaves the better part of its real potential untapped. Experience has shown television useful for teaching the isolated individual, including the basic skills of literacy. But its success will depend, we have also learned, above all on the kind of program used and the methods chosen for addressing the viewer. The full utilization of fhe power of this medium is a question of the creative possibilities of a country to provide its school ege and adult population with the right programs. Certainly, by joining out efforts we would achieve more und better results. One possible агеа of cooperation is the functional teaching of basic skills by television in collaboration with the multi-media system as proposed by the project ”Learning to Read - Learning to Live”. This is an example of an internationally made educational series offering the possibilities for presentation as a locally-adjusted series, with all the color of local features. This is the goal set out by this project It is there for us to study, if we so want, and to assess the possibilities it suggests for our cooperation. Similar ideas and projects could certainly be used in other areas of educational television.

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