Bees for Development Journal Edition 50 - March 1999

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How to make and use visual aids

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VSO Books

by Nicola Harford and Nicola Baird

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1997 - 128 pages. Paperback. Available from Bees for Development price 9.00 including postage

This book describes ways to achieve good sharing of information between people. The “chalk and talk” method of teaching (teacher talks, students listen) is gradually changing to

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“learning by doing’. Projects increasingly use participatory approaches for decision making. This book assumes that both the trainers and the students (or the development workers and the community) will be involved in making the visual aids, and this will help everyone to participate, learn and remember more.

The book is full of ideas and suggestions, with excellent illustrations on every page. There are six pages of useful contact addresses for organisations around the world that are involved with participatory development.

Honey Bee by Seyyed Javad Saadatmand

1998 - 484 pages.

Paperback.

Arabic.

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Available from Bees for Development price 15.00 including postage

A book about beekeeping

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Heinemann

poster Bees, wasps and other hymenoptera 97 x 68 cm - full colour Available from Bees for Development price 10.00 including postage

An entertaining and decorative poster: drawings of, and brief descriptions of 33 species. The Latin, English, French, German, and Spanish names are listed along with notes on where the insects are found and their behavioural tendencies. A pleasingly artistic addition to the range of

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