Education | Big Bad Boo Studios

EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND OUR WORK WITH UNICEF

We work in conflict and post-conflict areas around the world, providing children and youth with access to engaging and entertaining content and educational materials that teach SEL, life and critical thinking skills, gender equality, human right, and literacy & numeracy. Each program is localized for the community in which it is implemented by working in partnership with Ministries of Education, subject matter experts, international partners such as UNICEF, local implementing partners, and school officials.

Our content is available for high, medium, and non-tech environments through animated episodes (distributed via TV, online and/or USBs), radio theater, story book readers, comic books, and any other format required, with children receiving accompanying activity books. Children watch or listen to an episode and are then guided through activities and discussion by teachers, facilitators or parents, in both formal or informal learning environments, as the context allows.

1001 Nights Life Skills and Citizenship Education Program

MISSION

Big Bad Boo was founded in 2007 with the single objective of reaching every child in the world to let them know whatever their shape, colour, or size, whatever their gender, sexual orientation or religious affiliation they have the right to aspire, dream and be respected.

MULTI-PLATFORM MEDIA

Television – Animated cartoon series for broadcast TV and streaming platforms

Digital – Websites and digital games for the web and mobile apps

Publishing – Books, comics, interactive storybooks and entertainment-based academic curricula

Academic Programs and Curricula – Cartoon-based programs that can be used in the classroom to teach SEL, Life and Critical Thinking Skills as well a democracy, human rights, the rule of law and social

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS

RECOGNITION

In addition to winning over 50 international awards for its programs in the entertainment industry, Big Bad Boo’s 1001 Nights Life Skills and Civic Education Program won the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Award on the fringes of UNGA, as one of the most innovative education programs in the world. Big Bad Boo has also been inducted into the Million Lives Collective for bettering the lives of over 1 million people living on less than $5/day.

White Papers

Promoting Inclusion and Tolerance Using 1001 Nights
Submitted to International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI), 2019By Shalom M. Fisch (President, MediaKidz Research & Consulting)

Countering Trauma of Refugees with 1001 Nights Curriculum
Submitted to Journal of International Development, 2020By Robert Jenkins, Global Chief of Education, UNICEF, and Dr. Lydia Wilson, University of Oxford, Center for Resolution of Intractable Conflict

1001 Nights: Using Media to Foster Socioemotional Development
Presented to the International Communication Association, 2018By Shalom M. Fisch (President, MediaKidz Research & Consulting)

Building Resilience to Radicalisation in MENA Evidence Session
British Parliamentary Committee Testimony of Aly Jetha (CEO of Big Bad Boo)

Pedagogical Approach of 1001 Nights Curriculum
Submitted as Independent White PaperBy Shalom M. Fisch (President, MediaKidz Research & Consulting)

Independent Analysis of Big Bad Boo’s Business Strategy
Submitted to Journal of Interactions: Studies in Communications & Culture, 2013By Lindsay Hogan (Assistant Professor, Boston College) and Matt Sienkiewicz (Associate Professor, Boston College)

Building Resilience to Radicalisation in MENA Evidence Session for the UK Parliamentary Task Force