rhodes university it’s raining training… but will the crops grow? by guy berger, presentation...
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Rhodes University
It’s rainingtraining…
but will the crops grow?
by Guy Berger,
presentation to:
NCRF Training Providers Consultative meeting
3 August 2001
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Rhodes University
Ideal logic•Community radio …
• Community of radio stations (NCRF) …
• Community of radio training providers?
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Rhodes University
Get close up• Ideal vs reality
• a real community is constructed
• a real community contains both conflict & concord
• recognise real interests
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Rhodes University
Trainers’ interestsTrue or false?
“Radio trainers are pure altruists”
Community radio is their passion - but also their livelihood.
They compete with each other.
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Rhodes University
Who earns & who learns?True or false:
Trainers learn as much if not more from training, as do trainees.We work like bees, and we already get paid for it …
So why bother with something like a trainers’ forum?
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Rhodes University
NCRF interests
• King of the network• Must deliver to members • Power to eat any out-of-favour providers
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TraineesTrue or false?
Many are professional trainees in search of junkets
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Pray they’ll stay
• Hand-up = hand-out?
• Drain vs new blood?
• Do we really make enough impact from our training?
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Rhodes University
So, creating a community of trainers has to be a hard-nosed business!
And a very complex one ...
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Rhodes University
We need to tackle pedagogy debates
Methodologies:
• Train on-site or not?
• Centre vs periphery
• Language
• Skill, talks & texts
• Stations as trainers
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More debate:• Skills transfer, or is it development?
• Go for breadth, with many trained, or
• Go for depth: train fewer, but better
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Rhodes University
Debate: multiplier effect
Do trainees bomb out back at the station? Or is it “each one, teach one”?
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For a community to fly ...
• Need to agree on core principles about what makes for effective training.
• A shared perspective = sharing knowledge.
Some possible principles ...
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Rhodes University
PRINCIPLE 1: Trainer-trainee-station
Learner-centred
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PRINCIPLE 1: Trainer-trainee-organisation Learner-centred
But context-driven
“As the strength of a chain is determined by its weakest link, so the least contribution of any one partner becomes the maximum level of effectiveness possible”
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PRINCIPLE 2: Ladder of learning
One-off and fragmented training experiences = resource waste
Investment in progressive learning over time
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PRINCIPLE 3: Training target A: Head
Train the brain:
information;
knowledge;
intellectual skills
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Training target B: HandsPractice:
Skills to implement
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Target C: Heart of the matter
If you forget about attitude, your training won’t fly.
You can train for media freedom & ethics, for anti-sexism, anti-racism, etc.
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Target D: The Wallet The point is:
• What’s the pay-off?• Financial• Organisational• Programme-related
•Is there a difference to the fulfillment of the community radio mission?
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Holistic trainingSo, training should be planned and assessed in terms of:
K nowledge
A ttitude
P ractice
P ay-off
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PRINCIPLE 4: PROCESSTraining is a journey- you can trace problems backwards
No application at the station Trainee didn’t learn much Cos poor delivery (or good, but …) Poor course design Because wasn’t based on needs, or …
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Process stages
If it did meet need
May be wrong trainees
Or workplace blocks
Or: training not the solution
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Process lessons
Front-end workis critical:you can’t salvage a wrong course or wrong trainees. Secrets of success can
also be traced through preceding stages
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PRINCIPLE 6: EVALUATE
Reaction: do they like it?
Learning: are they learning it?
Application: are they using it?
Pay-off: does it make a difference?
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Remember ...Good reaction learning
Learning application
Application pay-off
It’s a package.
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Realms ’n phases
Pre-course During Post-course
Reaction Reaction Reaction
Learning Learning Learning
Application Application Application
Pay-off Pay-off Pay-off
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Priorities: recommended % of courses to evaluate
Pre-course During Post-course
Reaction (100%)
Learning (75%)
Application Application (50%)
Pay-off (10%)
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Evaluation:• Begin before the beginning of a course;• Continue long after the end.• Cover reaction, learning, application, pay-off at every stage.
• Results: you’ll find what works, what needs work.
“It’s this training that did it”
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Rhodes University
Agreed!
Sharing - in the interests of training - means we can combine forces to build a stronger sector
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Diversity amongst trainers does not preclude co-operation, collaboration, or even convergence in some cases.
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Rhodes University
Competition
will - and should - continue, but alongside complaboration & collabetition
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Earn your stripes• Common standards will improve performance.• Centres of excellence will emerge.
eg. More expertise in kids’ programmes (W Cape); drama (KZN); education (Gauteng); etc.
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Rhodes University
Providers will develop special and unique features.
Alongside a lot of shared overlap in basic training (which needs to be spread around the regions).
Rationalisation of training: Some will be organic, some will be planned
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Rhodes University
Warning: without greater co-operation and communication, trainers will end up competing over the dead-body of community radio.Combine to help it conquer!
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The gain in trainServing the sector a servant of the sector.Providers should offer:* Needs-driven AND needs-arousing training.* Demand- AND supply- driven courses.A proactive community.
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Shapiro-Nel study of 14 stations’ training needs recorded that not more than one singled out:• journalism training, • covering poverty• reporting local govt.
Only 3 said gender training. None said training in media convergence.
Providers can’t ignore these areas!
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Working together - way to go• Accept diverse interests and major complexities.
• Recognise there’s a role for all, a need for all, & space for all.
• Acknowledge complaboration.• Be active agents.
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Fly in the ointment?How? • What does NCRF co-ordination mean? • Can centralisation include fair tenders and leveraging?• Is control a bad thing?
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Final thought • Training principle: The sign of a good trainer is not the impression developed among trainees about how well they were taught, but rather, how much they feel they have learned.Likewise, trainer egos
should be 2ndary within a network of providers.
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Lots of work needed ...
Cicadas make a racket, but when you look, you can’t find them!
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Training is a good thing:now let’s make it even better
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The End(or the Beginning?)
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