ABSTRACT
As a professor at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria and head of a social studies teacher education unit that includes distance education for rural students, I have long been concerned with issues of women’s learning through various technologies. My involvement with the nomadic women began when I was a research assistant conducting research on issues of health care, sanitation, maternal delivery, and food and nutrition. In this work, I was struck by how the women responded to my questions by referring to educational radio programs they had heard. So for this chapter, my focus is women’s involvement with the radio programs and the constraints they face in listening to them. Radio can be a useful learning medium for people in many different urban and rural contexts and regions (Tahir 1991; Mitchell and Murugan 2000; Walker and Dhanarajan 2000; Maskow 2001), but its effectiveness depends on context-and learner-sensitive planning and delivery.
