Radio ECCA

Radio ECCA
Format FM and internet
Language(s) Spanish
Affiliations Society of Jesus
Sister stations Fourteen
Webcast RadioECCA
Website ECCA

Radio ECCA is a multifaceted educational radio station which began as a training center in adult literacy, with a pioneering effort by a Jesuit priest on the Spanish Gran Canary Island in 1967.

History

A radio station dedicated exclusively to teaching was a revolutionary idea in 1965 when Fr. Francisco Villen of the Society of Jesus offered the first class on Radio ECCA. Villen gradually convinced public and private sources to give the necessary financial support to address the literacy needs of the people, which was not in itself a money-making venture. He based the ECCA educational system on the synchronization of radio classes with printed material for the students (similar to those now used by distance educational institutions IBAD, CIEDAD, UNED) and counselling.[1] In the first year the audience grew from 279 to 1,000 students.[2]

The training provided by Radio ECCA began diversifying. In addition to conventual basic education, ECCA initiated training to facilitate access to the professional world for the people of the islands. Language and accounting were the first courses in ECCA's open classroom. This grew to more than two hundred programs covering fields as diverse as basic education,[3] technologies, baccalaureate,[4] languages, family intervention,[5][6] free time, health,[7] and environmentalism.

Since the 1970s, ECCA Radio has collaborated with different Latin American institutions, giving rise to a wide network of initiatives that use the ECCA Radio Distance Learning system. Co-operation with institutions in other countries is ongoing,[8] including in West Africa where ECCA Radio has transferred its training technology to institutions capable of serving the education and culture of the various societies.[9]

Since 1986, ECCA Foundation Canary Radio has title to the educational station. Its Board of Trustees counts on the participation of all institutions and human capital that have enabled it to exist: students, teachers, civil society, religious entities, and the different levels of public administration.

With more than 600 persons working in the network, ECCA continues to pursue its primary goal of reaching those with most need for an education,[10] while also addressing the needs linked to new technologies and modern job training,[11] democratic and participatory social values,[12] culture of gender equality, those with disabilities,[13] education for health and the environment,[14] and the Intercultural and interreligious dialogue demanded by our globalized world.[15] It has more than 12,000 adults studying to get their secondary education degree.[16][2] Overall director in 2016 was Jesuit Fr. Lucas López Pérez.[17]

Golden anniversary

In 2017 Radio ECCA celebrated its 50th anniversary in the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Francisco Ruiz Pérez, provincial of the Jesuits in Spain and executive president of the ECCA Radio Patronage, said that "long roads are not the result of luck; If ECCA is 50 years old today, it is because it has maintained the spirit of a visionary, the Jesuit Francisco Villén." He thanked the students for their conviction that learning is never too late and for their tenacity and spiritual strength to keep learning. Francisca Luengo, Minister of Employment of the Government of the Canary Islands and member of the Board of Radio ECCA, said that it is "difficult to imagine a Canary of prosperity without ECCA Radio, an educational institution that has been transformed to offer professional qualifications and certificates for employment." The event closed with the words of the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Paulino Rivero, that ECCA Radio is and has been very important for the jump start that it gave the Canaries in the last 50 years, and that it will continue to be a transcendental initiative to achieve a fairer and more united world.

Radio ECCA is the oldest of the distance education institutions in Spain and the most important adult education center in the Canaries, in a network of centers, in activities offered, and in the number of students. During its 50 years of existence it has educated two and a half million people.[18]

ECCA radio frequencies

Province of Las Palmas

Fuerteventura

  • Puerto del Rosario: 93.0 FM

Gran Canaria

  • Maspalomas: 91.4 FM
  • Santa Lucia de Tirajana / Neighborhood: 90.7 and 103.9 FM
  • Teror: 90.4 FM

Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
El Hierro

  • Valverde: 90.6 FM

La Gomera

  • Playa de Santiago: 90.4 FM
  • San Sebastián de La Gomera: 91.8 FM

''La Palma''

  • Santa Cruz de La Palma: 99.5 FM
  • Tijarafe: 90.6 FM

Tenerife

  • La Orotava: 104.8 FM
  • Los Cristianos: 103.4 FM
  • Los Realejos: 105.1 FM
  • San Miguel de Abona: 90.4 FM
  • Santa Cruz de Tenerife: 106.6 FM

References

  1. ↑ "Mérida » Ayuntamiento y Radio ECCA firman un convenio de orientación laboral para jóvenes menores de 30 años". merida.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  2. 1 2 España, DIÓCESIS DE CANARIAS - Secretariado de Medios de Comunicación de la Diócesis de Canarias -. "Radio ECCA". www.diocesisdecanarias.es. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
  3. ↑ "RADIO ECCA BADAJOZ". www.volured.com. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  4. ↑ "Bachillerato en ECCA". bachilleratoenecca.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  5. ↑ "Pájara se adhiere al Convenio firmado entre Caixa y Radio Ecca para asistir a las familias más desfavorecidas del municipio". www.noticanarias.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  6. ↑ (http://simbiotica.es), Simbiótica SL. "Entrevista sobre duelo infantil en Radio Ecca | FMLC - Fundación Mario Losantos del Campo". www.fundacionmlc.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  7. ↑ "Curso "Cuidando a personas con alzhéimer" en Radio Ecca | Afate | Asociación de familiares de enfermos de Alzheimer y otras demencias de Tenerife". afate.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  8. ↑ GaliciaDigital. "Radio ECCA: Galego por Internet | Galicia Digital". www.galiciadigital.com. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  9. ↑ "Radio ECCA, premio nacional de radio | Entreculturas". www.entreculturas.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  10. ↑ "Agradecimiento de Radio Ecca | IES Cruce de Arinaga". www3.gobiernodecanarias.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  11. ↑ "-". canariasenhora.com. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  12. ↑ Learning, UNESCO Institute for Lifelong (2012-04-04). "Effective Literacy Programmes". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  13. ↑ 20Minutos. "Radio ECCA pone en marcha una plataforma educativa para personas con discapacidad - 20minutos.es". 20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  14. ↑ Bello Luján, L. M.; Armas Navarro, A.; Jiménez Suárez, M.; Hernández Betencourt, L.; Serra Majem, Ll (2003-01-01). "Nontraditional nutrition education interventions: the radio ECCA method". European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 57 (S1): S86–S89. ISSN 0954-3007. doi:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601811.
  15. ↑ "Canarias Basketball Academy | CBA PLAYERS WILL LEARN SPANISH WITH RADIO ECCA". cbacademy.org. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  16. ↑ Administrador. "Radio ECCA". www.educacionjesuitas.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  17. ↑ "radio ECCA Archivos - Geólogos del Mundo". Geólogos del Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  18. ↑ "Radio ECCA celebra 50 años de docencia en las ondas". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-02-05.
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