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Parker, Stephen G. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2015
As part of its stated mission to Christianise Britain, from its earliest years the BBC broadcast religious programmes intended for a child audience. Directed at sites domestic and educational, these broadcasts constituted a means of the mediatisation of religion for children. This paper explores the work of the pioneer children's religious…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Education, Radio, Educational History
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Barker, Meg; Duschinsky, Robbie – Gender and Education, 2012
This paper explores the considerations of sexualisation and gender stereotyping in the recent UK government report "Letting Children be Children". This report, the "Bailey Review", claimed to represent the views of parents. However, closer reading reveals that, while the parents who were consulted were concerned about both the…
Descriptors: Programming (Broadcast), Sexuality, Foreign Countries, Sex Stereotypes
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Parker, Stephen G. – History of Education, 2010
From its inception in 1922 the BBC pioneered a new medium in the education of children. This article traces the origins and development of a particular broadcast, "Children's Hour Prayers," a short worship time for children (appended to "Children's Hour") which began in wartime, and ended, along with the host programme itself,…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Radio, Programming (Broadcast), Children
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Emmison, Michael; Goldman, Laurence – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1997
Examines the complex nature of pretense as portrayed in a popular UK children's television puppet show. Argues that animality of puppets is rendered opaque as their identities as children are linguistically accomplished, leading to a piece of representational art structured by moral and behavioral dictates typical of conventional adult-child…
Descriptors: Children, Fantasy, Foreign Countries, Imagination