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The Potential Uses of Television in Preschool Education. A Report to Carnegie Corporation of New York
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Cooney, Joan Ganz – Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, 2019
In 1966, Joan Ganz Cooney was a documentary producer at Channel 13 when Lloyd Morrisett, then Vice President at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, offered her an opportunity that would change the landscape of children's media forever. The Carnegie Corporation provided funding for a three-month study during which Joan traveled the country to…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Audiences, Basic Skills, Disadvantaged Youth
Are Educational Shows Teaching Our Children to Become Life-Long Learners?
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Sullins, Jeremiah; Howard, Tiffany; Goza, Kimberly – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate various textual characteristics of popular children television shows. More specifically, researchers examined both the quantity and quality of question asked (i.e., question training). Furthermore, several readability components among the different shows (e.g., narrativity, syntactic simplicity,…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Children, Television Research, Programming (Broadcast)
Constructing a Fairy Tale around Intercultural Couplehood on Chinese Television
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Dervin, Fred; Gao, Minghui – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2012
Research on intercultural couplehood often relies on cultures and "solid identities" to explain the couples' experiences. By looking at the media construction of an intercultural couple on Chinese television, we are interested in how they are presented and co-constructed through different perspectives, especially if and how (cultural)…
Descriptors: Television Research, Discourse Analysis, Fairy Tales, Television
Making Sense of TV for Children: The Case of Portugal
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Pereira, Sara; Pinto, Manuel – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2011
Empowering children for a critical and judicious use and consumption of media is a main objective of media literacy. This paper aims to examine the range of television programs available for children in Portugal through a comparative analysis of the programming for children broadcast by the four Portuguese terrestrial channels (RTP1, RTP2, SIC and…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis, Educational Television
Begin with the Children: What Research on "Sesame Street's" International Coproductions Reveals about Using Media to Promote a New More Peaceful World
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Cole, Charlotte F.; Labin, Daniel B.; del Rocio Galarza, Maria – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
For nearly four decades, Sesame Workshop has brought the joy of learning to the world's youngest citizens through the introduction of locally-produced coproductions of the preschool television series, "Sesame Street". Many of these television shows have been specifically designed to forward important prosocial messages directly linked to…
Descriptors: Television Research, Conflict, Foreign Countries, Childrens Television
Educational Myth-Making with "Due Accuracy and Impartiality"? A Current Affairs TV Episode in the United Kingdom
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Wallace, Mike – Peabody Journal of Education, 2007
The mass media contribution to education politics is explored through the application of a pluralistic theoretical framework to evidence connected with the making of an episode of a U.K. current affairs television program. The episode addressed a politically contentious educational issue but proved controversial in itself. Several sources…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Programming (Broadcast), Mass Media Effects