Primary Document Analysis

Mariah Bouchard
Primary Document Analysis
November 7, 2017

The source: “National Farm Radio Forum: Careers for rural teens” CBC.ca. CBC national archives. Broadcast publication date: January 13, 1964.
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/national-farm-radio-forum-careers-for-rural-teens

This source is a radio discussion put together by National Farm Radio Forum. It was broadcasted on January 13, 1964. Knowing first that it is a radio broadcast we can gather that this was a popular way of spreading information and it was something they had easy access to in order to deliver the messages. Though this document lacks an analysis with it we can gather a lot of information about the topic simply from the conversations had over this radio show.

From the conversations had we can gather enough information to have an understanding of challenges they faced in regard to rural teens. They discuss the issues with good and bad teachers and the affects a bad teacher has on a child’s potential. What is unique to this source is that it is not one sided, because it is a radio show with many people weighing in we can see that each student may have a different opinion on the issues discussed.

This radio show used its publicity to cover an issue people found necessary in the communities of Canada. The purpose of this segment was to discuss the issues on whether or not rural youth had fair access to teachers and if their finance issues played significant roll on the attendance to post-secondary education. Since this radio station had students from different parts of Canada we are able to see the affect these issues have on youth everywhere in rural communities. We also see different points of view and how some students don’t always agree that the issues may be the same. Because of this multiple point of view access, we are able to have a better understanding of how the issues affect each child uniquely.

Although there is the issue on how credible these teens are, do they truly have a full understanding of the issues and the bigger picture. Though there is a few of them discussing the issues we also have to take into account the teachers opinion as well as the parents opinion when it comes to financing your child through university.

I think this source succeeding in showing the attitudes towards the issues. Being able to hear the discussion and their voices we are able to have a good grasp on the emotion towards the issues and how they tend to disagree in some aspects. Being able to grasp the emotions and the conflict in their conversation we are able to understand how serious they took these issues and how important the issue was to each person in the room.