This volume contains the results of the first study of the problems associated with using educational television in curriculum planning in the Ivory Coast. The study was conducted in two districts of this African country, one relatively developed and situated in the southern part of the country, and the other more characteristic of the poorer regions of the Ivory Coast. The authors developed a methodology particularly suited to studying the geographic, economic, demographic, and educational conditions characteristic of most of tropical Africa. This methodology can be applied generally to the whole Ivory Coast without great difficulty. It makes it possible to test the realism of the objectives of the plan for universal elementary education and the feasibility of the general applicability of educational television. (Author/DS)