Children’s learning from educational television: Sesame Street and beyond

Book name: Children’s learning from educational television: Sesame Street and beyond

Author:  Shalom M. Fisch

Published in: 2004

Number of pages: 267

Abstract:

At its best, educational television can provide children with a window to new experiences, enrich academic knowledge, enhance attitudes and motivation, and nurture social skills. Drawing from a wide variety of research scanning several disciplines, author Shalom M. Fisch analyzes the literature on the effects of educational television and offers data on the impact of educational television programs (both academic and prosocial) on children’s knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behavior. This volume provides–for the first time–a centralized resource that unites the disparate literature on the impact of educational television. It draws together a broad array of empirical data to assess the impact of educational television programs on children. In addition, it fills a significant gap in the prior research literature by proposing a set of theoretical models to explore aspects of the mental processing that underlies children’s learning from educational television. With its unique perspective on children’s educational television and comprehensive approach to the topic, this volume is required reading for scholars, researchers, and students working in the areas of children and television and it offers crucial insights to scholars in developmental psychology, family studies, educational psychology, and related areas. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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