Children and Television A Challenge for Education

Name: Children and Television A Challenge for Education
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ISBN: 9780275923556

ISBN-10: 027592355X

ISBN-13: 9780275923556

Edition: 1987

Authors: Michael E. Manley-Casimir, Carmen Luke

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The empirical and theoretical studies in Part I explore the interactive relationship between TV and the child viewer. In opposition to the widely held view that the child is a passive recipient of TV information, these studies show that children's background knowledge and their cognitive and experimental skills influence how they interpret TV content, symbolic form, and ultimately, its influence on what kind of learning takes place. The effects of reciprocal relationships of TV violence, commercial advertising and reading ability are investigated in other chapters in this section. Part II moves to practical educational questions and presents approaches to curriculum design for the teaching…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 10/5/1987
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 334
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Michael Manley-Casimir is a professor in the Faculty of Education and Director of the Tecumseh Centre for Aboriginal Research and Education at Brock University.



Preface



Television and the Developing Child Television, Cognition, and Learning



Television and Reading: The Roles of Orientations and Reciprocal Relations



Television and Children's Food Habits: A Big Brother/Sister Approach



Television Violence; Does it Promote Aggressive Behavior?



Television Discourse and Schema Theory: Toward a Cognitive Model of Information Processing




Educating Toward Media Literacy The Power of Television: Enrichment of the Television Experience by Parents and Teachers



Television and Literacy



The Active Viewer: Critical Viewing Skills in the Classroom




Television Literacy and Social Policy U.S. Children's Television in Crisis: Problems of Tradition, Vision, and Value



Children's Television in Canada: Program Policy in the Eighties



Communications Media in the Eighties: Priorities for Children's Television



Children, Culture, and the Curriculum of Television: The Challenge for Education




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Children and Television by Carmen Luke