{"title":"Paving the way: training the influentials in population education.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A number of countries in Far East Asia are in the process of launching national population education programs. To get them off the ground and to keep them working needs the support of key personnel in the program. This means that basic training in population education should be given to key personnel to enable them to promote and efficiently run the population education programs. The Sub-Regional Group Training Course in Population Education organized by the Mobile Team of the Unesco Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania to be held in Bangkok from 18 August to 5 September is a response to this need. Training will be given to key personnel from Afghanistan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. The specific objectives of the course are to provide the participants with: 1) opportunities for exchanges of information and experience; exposure to and involvement in developing population education curricula, teaching units and sample instructional materials; 2) an understanding of various strategies for curriculum development and methodologies used for designing and implementing programs; and 3) preparation as teams from each Member State able to contribute to the promotion of population education in school and out of school in their countries. The training course has 5 main thrusts, namely: 1) sharing of experiences and clarification of the concepts of population education; 2) development of population education curriculum; 3) development of teaching units; 4) development of sample alternative instructional materials; and 5) field visit to ongoing population education programs in Thailand. The content will cover: 1) the knowledge base which includes concepts, nature, issues and status of population education; demographic concepts, population and development; and 2) strategies and approaches such as those used in curriculum development and teaching units, methods of teaching, and instructional materials development. The training methodologies will include lecture and panel discussions, film shows, and practicum.</p>","PeriodicalId":85313,"journal":{"name":"Population education in Asia and Oceania newsletter","volume":" 12","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22034381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development and utilization of low-cost audio-visual aids in population communication.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One of the reasons why population information has to a certain degree failed to create demand for family planning services is that the majority of information and communication materials being used have been developed in an urban setting, resulting in their inappropriateness to the target rural audiences. Furthermore, their having been evolved in urban centers has hampered their subsequent replication, distribution, and use in rural areas due to lack of funds, production and distribution resources. For this reason, many developing countries in Asia have begun to demand population materials which are low-cost and simple, more appropriate to rural audiences and within local production resources and capabilities. In the light of this identified need, the Population Communication Unit, with the assistance of the Population Education Mobile Team and Clearing House, Unesco, has collaborated with the Population Center Foundation of the Philippines to undertake a Regional Training Workshop on the Design, Development, and Utilization of Low-Cost Audiovisual Aids in the Philippines from 21-26 July 1980. The Workshop, which will be attended by communications personnel and materials developers from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand, will focus on developing the capabilities of midlevel population program personnel in conceptualizing, designing, developing, testing and utilizing simple and low-cost audiovisual materials. It is hoped that with the skills acquired from the Workshop, participants will be able to increase their capability in training their own personnel in the development of low-cost materials.</p>","PeriodicalId":85313,"journal":{"name":"Population education in Asia and Oceania newsletter","volume":" 12","pages":"9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22034382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proposed plan for each country.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85313,"journal":{"name":"Population education in Asia and Oceania newsletter","volume":" Spec. No.","pages":"8-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a better programme implementation: a review of the Bangladesh Population Education Project (July 1976-June 1980).","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85313,"journal":{"name":"Population education in Asia and Oceania newsletter","volume":" 12","pages":"7-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22034380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"People's Republic of China: the role of population education in birth planning.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85313,"journal":{"name":"Population education in Asia and Oceania newsletter","volume":" 12","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22034379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}