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"Since when Are We, Mothers Who Raise Their Kids Themselves, Dopes?" Debates on Women's Emancipation in Belgian Educational Television Programmes for Women (1954-1975)
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Flamez, E.; Vanobbergen, B. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2013
This research explores political-educational debates regarding the concept of women's emancipation in women and family programmes on Belgian television between 1954 and 1975. From the very beginning, the women's episodes were regarded as explicitly educational. The episodes were created to increase women's participation by means of their…
Descriptors: Females, Programming (Broadcast), Television, History
Parents, Expertise and Identity Work: The Media Conceptualised as a Lifelong Learning Practice
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Aarsand, Liselott Assarsson – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2011
Parenting is a recurring topic in books, newspapers, magazines and TV shows in Western societies. Often it involves experts giving advice to adults. Hence, parenting is made visible, categorised, evaluated and corrected in public. Judgements on what is desirable are demonstrated, and objectives to be achieved are pointed out. In the present study,…
Descriptors: Expertise, Child Rearing, Lifelong Learning, Discourse Analysis
Maternal Characteristics Associated with Television Viewing Habits of Low-Income Preschool Children
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Conners, Nicola A.; Tripathi, Shanti P.; Clubb, Richard; Bradley, Robert H. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2007
Few studies have examined maternal characteristics associated with heavy or inappropriate television viewing on the part of their children. We investigated the relationship between children's television viewing habits and maternal depressive symptoms and parenting beliefs. The participants were 175 low income children (mean age = 62.1 months) and…
Descriptors: Television Viewing, Low Income Groups, Mothers, Disadvantaged Youth
S. 1383, Children's Protection from Violent Programming Act of 1993; S. 973, Television Report Card Act of 1993; and S. 943, Children's Television Violence Protection Act of 1993. Hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. – 1993
It is estimated that the typical American child will watch 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence before finishing elementary school. Concern for the impact television violence may have on American society prompted this Senate hearing. As stated by Senator Hollings, the goals of the hearing were the following: (1) to determine the compelling…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Rearing, Children, Childrens Television
Ready To Learn Act. Hearing on S. 3134 of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session [and] Ready To Learn Act, Public Law 102-545.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1992
These hearing transcripts present testimony concerning S. 3134, the Ready to Learn Act, which is designed to expand the production and distribution of educational and instructional video programming; support educational programming for preschool and elementary school children, parents, child care providers, and educators of young children; and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Advocacy, Child Rearing, Childrens Television
Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood. The Edge: Critical Studies in Educational Theory.
Steinberg, Shirley R., Ed.; Kincheloe, Joe L., Ed. – 1998
Changing economic realities, coupled with children's access to information about the adult world, have drastically changed the social construction of childhood. Noting that education takes place in a variety of social sites including but not limited to school, this book examines the influence of commercial concerns on this cultural pedagogy and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Business, Change Strategies, Child Rearing