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In 1971 she delivered her paper ''Development Communication in the Agricultural Context'' at a UPCA symposium in honor of its outgoing dean, [[Dioscoro L. Umali]]. Drawing from the works of [[Alan Chalkley]], [[Wilbur Schramm]], and [[Daniel Lerner]], among others, she coined a definition of the field outlining its basic theory and practice.<ref name="DevCom">{{cite paper | author =Quebral, Nora C. in Jamias, Juan F.| title =Development Communication:Readings in Development Communication | version = | publisher =UPLB Department of Development Communication | date =1975 | url = | format = | accessdate = }}</ref> |
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Nora C. Quebral | |
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| Occupation | Academic |
| Known for | pioneering the discipline of development communication in Asia |
Nora Cruz Quebral is a pioneering figure in the discipline of Development Communication in Asia and is often referred to as the "Mother of Development Communication" giving birth not only to an academic discipline but to a new crop of scholars in the field as well.[1] Among her students were internationally known devcom educators and practitioners such as Felix Librero, Pedro Bueno, Antonio Moran, Alexander Flor, Rex Navaro and Maria Celeste Cadiz. Her landmark 1971 paper entitled Development Communication in the Agricultural Context and her leadership of what was then the UP College of Agriculture's Department of Agricultural Communication, paved the way for academic programs in development communication at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). That institution would later become the UPLB College of Development Communication (CDC), where Quebral still serves as Professor Emeritus.[2]
In three separate terms spanning 17 years, from 1966 to 1985, Dr. Quebral served as the chairperson of the various earlier incarnations of what would later become the CDC, where her colleagues have fondly come to refer to her by her initials, "NCQ". [2]
She now mostly serves as a consultant, and founded the Nora C. Quebral Development Communication Centre, Inc., which "undertakes a wide variety of development communication projects in health communication, environmental communication and agricultural communication".
She recently received the first Hildegard Award for Women in Media and Communication last March 5, 2007.[1]
Development Communication
The former dean of the UPLB College of Development Communication, noted that:
The history of the UPLB College of Development Communication is in a large part the history of Nora’s career in the academe, along with that of the development communication program and its practice at Los Baños.[2]
— Dr. Maria Celeste H. Cadiz
Quebral has, time and again, redefined development communication over the years, rethinking its basic tenets and reorienting her definition to fit the evolving challenge of development. These revisions to her definition of the field have served as guides towards new directions for the numerous scholars and practitioners of the field.
While she first gave a definition for the development communication in 1971, her latest revision, presented in 2001, delineates the field as:
the art and science of human communication linked to a society's planned transformation from a state of poverty to one of dynamic socio-economic growth that makes for greater equity and the larger unfolding of individual potential.
Educational background
Quebral graduated magna cum laude with a BA in English from the University of the Philippines in 1950. She then earned her MS in agricultural journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as US International Cooperation Agency and Philippine National Economic Council scholar in 1956-57, and then received her PhD in communication at the University of Illinois as Rockefeller Foundation scholar in 1963-66.
Early career
While a student, Quebral worked as secretary at the Claims Service of the US Army. When she graduated in 1950, she served as a debate stenographer of the Labor Management Advisory Board.
In 1952, she became a copy editor of the journal Philippine Agriculturist, starting her career in what was then the University of the Philippines College of Agriculture (UPCA).
In October 1954, UPCA put up the Office of Extension and Publications (UPCA-OEP); Quebral was one of its three Filipino staff members. The office was put up to so that the then 45-year old agriculture campus could add an extension component to its mission, in addition to instruction and research. This office became an academic department in 1960, and Quebral's academic career took full flight.
Pioneering the field of Development Communication
In 1971 she delivered her paper Development Communication in the Agricultural Context at a UPCA symposium in honor of its outgoing dean, Dioscoro L. Umali. Drawing from the works of Alan Chalkley, Wilbur Schramm, and Daniel Lerner, among others, she coined a definition of the field outlining its basic theory and practice.[3]
In that paper she noted that:
The reason for my having to coin my own definition is that development communication is still very much in the evolutionary stage so that no one is quite prepared to be pinned down to an exact definition of it.
The UP College of Agriculture was declared an autonomous unit of the University of the Philippines system the following year, 1972, and was reborn as the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB).
Quebral's department was renamed the Department of Development Communication the following year, 1973, and opened the Master of Science in Development Communication program — the Philippines' first academic degree program in Communication. The next year, UPLB's university council approved the Bachelor's Degree program in Development Communication.
When the PhD program in Development Communication received approval in 1976, the DDC became the first in the world to offer degree courses in Development Communication at the undergraduate, masteral, and doctorate levels.
She also founded Development Communication in Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan on February 23, 1984.
Retirement
The DDC was elevated into the Institute of Development Communication in 1987 and Quebral decided to take an early retirement the following year, after 28 years in the academe. She set up the Nora C. Quebral Development Communication Center, Inc. (NCQDCCI) and devoted more time to professional practice and research.
She was later named Professor Emeritus at UPLB CDC, "enjoying serving as consultant and expert in development communication as the opportunities arise, and guiding and interacting with Development Communication scholars."[2]
See also
- Development communication
- Information and Communication Technologies for Development
- Information and Communication for Development (ICD)
External links
- CFSC Pioneer: Honouring Nora Quebral
- UPLB College of Development Communication
- UPLB College of Development Communication Profile
- CFSC Pioneer: A Conversation With Nora Quebral by Cel Cadiz
- Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) Media Timeline
References
- ^ a b Garcia, Angelo G (2007-05-01). "St. Scholastica's College-Manila: Putting Women on the Pedestal". Manila Bulletin Online. Retrieved 2007-08-02.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b c d Cadiz, Maria Celeste H. "Nora Cruz Quebral: Writer and Thinker Par Excellence". Retrieved 2007-08-02.
- ^ Quebral, Nora C. in Jamias, Juan F. (1975). "Development Communication:Readings in Development Communication". UPLB Department of Development Communication.
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