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The HBF presents annual monetary awards for the HBF Prize in the TV Proposal Division of the JAPAN PRIZEwhich is a contest where quality audiovisual works with educational value gather from around the world organized by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK).

<The JAPAN PRIZE 2011>
There were 35 proposals from 26 organizations. Five of them were short-listed and their producers were invited to Tokyo to make presentations on their proposed programs on October 23, 2011. The winner was officially announced at the Awards ceremony on October 27, and received a trophy and a check prize for US$8,000 from Mr. Hiroshi Shiono, the President of the Hoso Bunka Foundation.

The Hoso Bunka Foundation Prize

The excellent proposal for TV program which displayed the potential of educational programs was selected after deliberate consideration on the quality of the proposal and circumstances in the submitting countries.
Winner: Mr. Caleb Muchungu
Title : Our TV is a carton!
Organization: Malawi Institute of Education (MIE)
Country : Malawi


Proposal content:
In a remote part of Malawi children in a school are seated under a tree. The teachers are facing with lack of teaching resources; hence they are being innovative and using locally available materials to bridge the gap. For instance, a teacher utilizes a used carton, and creates a look-alike TV set with it. Colorful illustration on the front side of the box is shown as if it is on a TV screen. Children here have never been even close to a real TV set. This kind of innovative method of teaching is known as Talular (Teaching and Learning Using locally Available Resources.) Other materials can be bottle tops, cardboards, matchboxes, roots, leafs and whatever you can think of. This program is to motivate teachers to be more interesting in their instructional methods. Through interviews of four model teachers, we learn of their frustrations at having no teaching and learning resources. The program also uses vivid facial expressions of the children being benefited by the innovative teachers.

>>For further details see http://www.nhk.or.jp/jp-prize

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