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How to Make and Use Visual Aids

Nicola Harford, Nicola Baird

Oxford et al.; London: Heinemann; Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) (1997), 128 pp.

"School teachers, teacher trainers and development workers know that visual aids help people to learn and remember, but when time is short and resources few, visual aids may seem to be a luxury they cannot afford. This book shows that you can make visual aids quickly and easily, using low-cost mater ... more

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Drawing Insight: Communicating Development Through Animation

Joyce Greene, Deborah Reber (eds.)

Penang (MY): Southbound (1996), x, 118 pp.

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Participatory Development Tool Kit: Training Manuals for Agencies and Communities

Deepa Narayan, Lyra Srinivasan

Washington, DC: World Bank (1995), ix, 68 pp.

"Experience gained in many countries shows that the acceptance and use of participatory processes is essential to achieve sustainable development. However, without tools and materials to support participatory approaches, wishes do not translate into reality. This tool kit of visual materials was pre ... pared in response to the repeated demands from people working in the field for materials that can help decision makers, project staff, training institutes, trainers and artists initiate the process of developing their own local materials to address their specific concerns. While the need for greater access to this material is clear, we hesitated for some time in putting out a global tool kit for three main reasons. First, because development is rooted in the social, cultural, economic, and political context of societies and its institutions, visual materials should be a reflection of these realities and hence, of necessity, are location-specific. Can a global tool kit, then, serve a useful purpose? After much field experience, we have concluded that the answer is "yes." Over the last ten years, we have found that participatory training is more likely to take root and spread if local trainers and artists have some visual materials to spark their imaginations and, in some sense, to use as models. Just reading about a "pocket chart" is not sufficient; seeing and handling one makes all the difference in understanding the material, its applications, and possible uses. Second, despite the importance of visual materials, readers should not conclude that community development work requires prepared visuals. Many of the activities described can be conducted without the materials included in this kit. For example, maps can be drawn on the ground, and voting can be done by putting stones in squares scratched in the dirt. Issues surrounding gender analysis can be discussed effectively in a group without any visual aids at all. It is up to practitioners to change, simplify, and adapt the materials to their own needs. At the same time, we have found that visual materials are extremely effective in breaking class, gender, education, literacy, professional training, and status barriers. This is true at both the community and agency levels. At the community level they empower those who are not used to speaking up-such as women and the poor-to express themselves and their ideas through drawing, role plays, songs, stories, puppetry and through manipulating materials that are simple to use." (Preface) more

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How People Use Pictures: An Annotated Bibliography and Review for Development Workers
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Sarah Murray Bradley

London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (1995), 123 pp.

"Visual literacy is a characteristic all human beings inherently possess. Yet because of our cultural and social differences, we interpret visual symbols and representations, such as drawings, pictures, and artefacts, in different ways. How and why people use visual images to represent complex ideas ... more

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Development Communication Handbook: Ideas, Skills, Illustrations

Myron J. Pereira

Indore: Satprakashan Sanchar Kendra (1994), ix, 132 pp.

"Myron J. Pereira, SJ, brings together his years of experience in Development Communication as the director of ASTHA, a department of the Xavier Institute of Communications, Bombay. In this book he deals with sound slides, video, audio-cassettes and posters, street-plays and puppets and how they can ... more

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Lernen mit Bildmedien: Psychologische und didaktische Grundlagen

Bernd Weidenmann

Weinheim; Basel: Beltz, 2nd ed. (1994), 100 pp.

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VIPP: Visualisation in Participatory Programmes. A Manual for Facilitators and Trainers Involved in Participatory Group Events

Neill McKee

Dhaka: UNICEF Bangladesh (1993), x, 158 pp.

"This manual has been written for the trained facilitator. It is designed to reinforce concepts and techniques learned in training of facilitators and trainers in participatory group processes. It is the rare individual who could simply study the manual and apply it. A great deal of practice and exp ... more

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Bildgestützte Kommunikation in Schwarzafrika: Grundlagen, Beispiele und Empfehlungen zu angepaßten Kommunikationsverfahren in ländlichen Entwicklungsprogrammen
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Volker Hoffmann

Weikersheim: Margraf Verlag (1991), 331 pp.

"Ein Bild sagt mehr als 1000 Worte. Das stimmt, aber leider nur in ganz wenigen Bereichen, wo die Gestalt, die oberflächliche Beschaffenheit der Dinge im Brennpunkt der Betrachtung steht. Meist ist es aber andersherum, Worte sind viel aussagekräftiger und als Kommunikationsmittel viel universeller ... more

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El audiovisual en las áreas rurales: Descripción y evaluación de una experiencia

Patricia Ximena Quintanilla Ballivian

La Paz: Carrera de Ciencias de la Comunicación Universidad Católica Boliviana (1989), 82 pp.

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Las ayudas visuales en la alfabetización y cursos de administración

Juan Hernández

In: Educación y comunicación popular en el Peru

Luis Peirano (ed.)

Lima: IPAL (1988), pp. 197-215

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Audiovisuales: Una experienca nicaragüense. Manual de produccion

Lazaro Bildt

La Paz: CIMCA (1987), 82 pp.

"En 1980, se inició un proceso de producción de audiovisuales en el Departamento de Comunicaciones del Ministerio de Desarrollo Agropecuario y Reforma Agraria de Nicaragua. El presente trabajo forma parte de ese proceso [...] Consta de tres partes. La primera abarca aspectos del proceso de comunic ... more

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Visual Literacy in Communication: Designing for Development

Anne Zimmer, Fred Zimmer

Amersham; Tehran: Hulton Educational Publications; International Institution for Adult Literacy Methods (IIALM) (1978), 144 pp.

"The monograph, as the name suggests, is about visual literacy, communication and visual design. It goes beyond mere definition and does more than provide a theoretical framework. The monograph relates to the practical concerns of designing culture-oriented visual materials for use in functional lit ... more

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Applied communication in developing countries: Ideas and observations

Andreas Fuglesang

Uppsala: Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (1973), 124 pp.

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Visual Aids: Colour or Nonchrome

N. F. Spurr

Colonial Cinema (London), volume 12, issue 4 (1954), pp. 83-86

"Report on experiments carried out in Tanganyika by means of posters, film transparencies and films — Results and suggestions." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2194, topic code 310.1)

How People Use Pictures: An Annotated Bibliography and Review for Development Workers Top Insights

Bildgestützte Kommunikation in Schwarzafrika: Grundlagen, Beispiele und Empfehlungen zu angepaßten Kommunikationsverfahren in ländlichen Entwicklungsprogrammen Key Guidance

How People Use Pictures: An Annotated Bibliography and Review for Development Workers
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Bildgestützte Kommunikation in Schwarzafrika: Grundlagen, Beispiele und Empfehlungen zu angepaßten Kommunikationsverfahren in ländlichen Entwicklungsprogrammen
Key Guidance