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Aiex, Nola Kortner – 1989
Although schools in many countries have initiated mass media education, American schools still give little consideration to any systematic study of the mass media. Students are particularly in need of learning how to apply basic critical viewing concepts to watching television, the most powerful and ubiquitous of the mass media. Most researchers…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Critical Viewing, Curriculum Development, Evaluative Thinking
Manifold, Marjorie Cohee – 1997
Picture books are useful tools for teaching many abstract and complex concepts of the social studies at the elementary level. They allow students to develop visual literacy through sustained viewing time necessary for exploration, critique, and reflection on the images portrayed. Numerous examples of picture books are presented to support such…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing, Elementary Education
Aidman, Amy – 1997
This digest reports recent findings on violent television content, highlights the recently developed television ratings system, and offers suggestions for parental mediation of children's television viewing. The National Television Violence Study has demonstrated that not all violence is equal. Certain plot elements in portrayals of violence are…
Descriptors: Aggression, Audience Response, Child Behavior, Content Analysis