Abstract:

Introduction:
This article analyses the result of a systematic review of scientific literature, performed in the two main international academic databases -WOS (Web of Sciences) and SCOPUS. The aim is to know the existing scientific production relating radio and education between 2008 and 2018. The intention is to gather the features of the school radio experiences published in the magazines having the greatest impact and to know in which countries they are developed.

Methodology:
The search has been performed from defining concepts such as radio, education, school and learning, both in English and Spanish. 180 articles were found on the first search written in these languages. This search also returned texts in Portuguese. A thorough reading of such texts produced a final corpus of 18 articles. Through a methodology based on a systematic review, hypothesis arise in relation to the number of published articles, in which magazines they appear, what is the language used, where are the experiences developed and what is the methodology used for its study. The results show that English is the most used language for this type of scientific articles. They present radio experiences which have been developed in Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia, Brazil, Turkey, Romania, Argentina, Afghanistan, India, Guatemala, Sweden and Spain. At the same time, they are published in 11 relevant magazines, Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences and Comunicar being the ones that gather the highest number of articles.

Results:
The results of the documentary analysis prove that research about radio as a school communication instrument is not abundant. Radio is used as a work instrument mainly in less developed countries. Its presence is more extended and it is traditionally done as a consequence of a higher need (more rural population, mobility issues, fewer resources). In this sense, community radios play a quite relevant role in collaborating with educational centres to favour the students’ speaking and writing abilities, promote teamwork skills and strengthen cultural identity. All in all, there is a need to increase the quantity and quality of the investigation about radio experiences in formal education in order to use it as a motivational and learning tool.

Keywords:

Radio, education, school, learning.