The Soul City Experience in South Africa

Objective: To show how an integrated multifaceted approachto entertainment-education has been developed and evaluated. Participantsincluded Garth Japhet, M.D., and Sue Goldstein, M.D.

National Communication Campaigns and the Role ofEntertainment-Education

Objective: To demonstrate how entertainment-education activitiescan be incorporated into large-scale multichannel health and populationprograms. Participants included:

  • Opia Mensa Kumah, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
  • Warren Feek, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
  • Jose G. Rimon II, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Communication Programs
  • Joan Yonkler, Prospect Associates

Forging Commercial Partnerships in Television

Objective: To explain how to develop entertainment-educationprograms that appeal to private television systems. Participants included:

  • Yaser, Yasar, Turkish Family Health and Planning Foundation: Various Television Programs
  • Patricia Poppe, Johns Hopkins University, Population Communication Services: Peru TV
  • Marisa Nightingale and Black Entertainment Television, USA: National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

Field Report: Programming Partnerships with ExistingPopular Entertainment

Objective: To demonstrate entertainment-education approachesused by two United Nations agencies.

Warren Feek presents UNICEF: "BangladeshGirl Child Video and 'Meena'"

Participants also include Opia Mensa, UNFPA: "TheTanzanian Experience"

Producing Street Theater

Objective: To explore techniques for using street theaterto promote and support social change.

 

Carlos Victoria, Peru (left) and Carlos Alcantara, Peru(right) are performers in the Producing Street Theater workshop.

 

Maria do Carmo Moreira, Brazil (left) and USAID respresentative(right) discusses health and social issues, and community development inLatin American countries.

Hitting the Airwaves in West Africa

Objective: To report on the use of radio for empowermentin Africa.

Participants included Maria Celeste, WorldHealth Organization: "West African Radio"; Dr. Moncef Bouhafa,GLOVIS Project: "Media and Community Empowerment in West Africa;"Julie Fredriske, Vuleka Radio Productions: "The South African Experience"

Reaching Young People Through Participatory Media

Objective: To Show different approaches for reaching youngpeople.

Participants included:

  • Aurora Silayan Go, Foundation for Adolescent Development, Philippines: "Videos for Adolescents Promoting Healthy Values"
  • Antje Becker, M.P.H.: "Radio, Native American Children, and Substance Abuse"
  • Idowu Tope, Association for Reproductive and Family Health, Nigeria: "West African Youth Initiative Drama Program"

Stretching the Boundaries of Entertainment-Education

Objectives: To approach entertainment-education from perspectivesnot typically associated with entertainment for education: emancipatorypolitical education, game theory, and textual analysis. The goal of thepanel was to consider how these perspectives might extend the way we defineand think about the entertainment-education process, and what these "newer"perspectives can bring to the practice of entertainment-education.

Participants included:

  • Lisa Brooten, School of Telecommunications, Ohio University: "Dancing Towards Democracy: Entertainment for Emancipation Among the Karen of Burma"
  • Rex Martin, College of Communication, Pennsylvania State University: "The Past as Play, A Postmodern View of War Games"
  • David Peirson, College of Communication, Pennsylvania State College: "Manners, Mores, and Seinfeld, Cicumscribing American Civility"

Dance and Environmental Education

Objective: To share the experience of using dance in environmentaleducation in the Caribbean and Latin America.

Group photo of students and facilitators involvedin dance activities.

Facilitator: Sheila Barnett, University ofthe West Indies, Jamaica

Introduction: Madeleine Scott, Professor andDirector of the School of Dance, Ohio University

Hollywood Goes Educational

Participants included:

  • Jim Abrahams, Abrahams Boy, Inc.: "First Do No Harm: The TV Movie on Pediatric Epilepsy"
  • Neil Baer, Television Producer and Writer: "The Television Series ER: Enter-Educate via Television's Top-rated Medical Drama Series"
  • Alan Langleib, M. D. , School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University: "ER: A Multimedia Partnership for Personal and Public Health"
  • Michael Manheim, Manheim Company, Pacific Palisades

Radio for Health

Objective: To examine the uses of radio in Latin Americaand the Caribbean to promote physical and mental health.

 

Alma MockYen, Radio Education Unit, Universityof the West Indies: "Edutainment at Work in Jamaica: The Radio DiabetesStory"

 

Estella Luz Porras, Communication & DevelopmentStudies, Ohio University: "In Search of Sensuous Radio: Four ExperiencesAbout Educational Programs on Women's Issues"

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