Interactive radio is direct teaching aimed at children in the poorest areas of developing countries.
In the Barahona area of the Dominican Republic, there are 120,000 children who work from dawn to late afternoon in the fields and have no schools, nor time to attend. In most cases the broadcast scripts are integrated with national school curricula by local Ministry of Education staff. Further chapters describe the spread of IRI to other countries, and plans for the future. There is an appendix that deals with implementation, sustainability, and costs. Readers will have to make their own judgments regarding the behaviouristic approach to learning, the role it requires of the classroom teacher, and the implications of the approach for the non-instructional aspects of the school curriculum.