Radio ECCA

Radio ECCA is a multifaceted educational radio station which began as a training center in adult literacy on the Spanish Gran Canary Island in 1967.

Radio ECCA
Programming
Language(s)Spanish
FormatFM and internet
AffiliationsSociety of Jesus
Ownership
Fourteen
Links
WebsiteECCA

History

A radio station dedicated exclusively to teaching was a revolutionary idea in 1965 when Francisco Villen of the Society of Jesus offered the first class on Radio ECCA. Villen gradually convinced public and private sources to give the necessary financial support to address the literacy needs of the people, which was not in itself a money-making venture. He based the ECCA educational system on the synchronization of radio classes with printed material for the students and counselling.[1] In the first year the audience grew from 279 to 1,000 students.[2]

The training provided by Radio ECCA began diversifying. In addition to conventional basic education, ECCA initiated training to facilitate access to the professional world for the people of the islands. Language and accounting were the first courses in ECCA's open classroom. This grew to more than two hundred programs covering fields as diverse as basic education,[3] technologies, baccalaureate, languages, family intervention, free time, health and environmentalism.[4]

Since the 1970s, ECCA Radio has collaborated with different Latin American institutions, giving rise to a wide network of initiatives that use the ECCA Radio Distance Learning system.

With more than 600 persons working in the network, ECCA continues to pursue its primary goal of reaching those with most need for an education, while also addressing the needs linked to new technologies and modern job training,[5] democratic and participatory social values, culture of gender equality, those with disabilities.[6]

References
  1. "Mérida » Ayuntamiento y Radio ECCA firman un convenio de orientación laboral para jóvenes menores de 30 años". merida.es (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  2. España, DIÓCESIS DE CANARIAS - Secretariado de Medios de Comunicación de la Diócesis de Canarias -. "Radio ECCA". www.diocesisdecanarias.es. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
  3. "RADIO ECCA BADAJOZ". www.volured.com. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  4. Bello Luján, L. M.; Armas Navarro, A.; Jiménez Suárez, M.; Hernández Betencourt, L.; Serra Majem, Ll (2003-01-01). "Nontraditional nutrition education interventions: the radio ECCA method". European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 57 (S1): S86–S89. doi:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601811. ISSN 0954-3007. PMID 12947463.
  5. "-". canariasenhora.com. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  6. 20Minutos. "Radio ECCA pone en marcha una plataforma educativa para personas con discapacidad - 20minutos.es". 20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias. Retrieved 2017-02-06.

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