Children and Television: A Challenge for Education »

MICHAEL E. MANLEY-CASIMIR is an associate professor and co-director of the Law and Education Project on the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University.

CARMEN LUKE is a lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Studies, James Cook University of North Queensland, Australia.

The empirical and theoretical studies in Part I explore the interactive relationship between TV and the child viewer. In opposition to the widely held view that the child is a passive recipient of TV information, these studies show that children's background knowledge and their cognitive and experimental skills influence how they interpret TV content, symbolic form, and ultimately, its influence on what kind of learning takes place. The effects of reciprocal relationships of TV violence, commercial advertising and reading ability are investigated in other chapters in this section. Part II moves to practical educational questions and presents approaches to curriculum design for the teaching of critical and literate viewing skills. Innovative curricula, based on principles of liberal education, which encourage active and critical viewing, are spelled out in detail. Part III compares the policies of governments in industrialized nations in assuring the quality of children's television. An annotated list of studies and position papers published from 1975 to 1983 concludes this work.

Preface

Part I: Television and the Developing Child

Television, Cognition, and Learning by Ellen Wartella

Television and Reading: The Roles of Orientations and Reciprocal Relations by Gavriel Salamon

Television and Children's Food Habits: A Big Brother/Sister Approach by Gerald J. Gorn and Marvin E. Goldberg

Television Violence; Does it Promote Aggressive Behavior? by Meredith M. Kimball and Lesley A. Joy

Television Discourse and Schema Theory: Toward a Cognitive Model of Information Processing by Carmen Luke

Part II: Educating Toward Media Literacy

The Power of Television: Enrichment of the Television Experience by Parents and Teachers by David Nostbakken

Television and Literacy by David R. Olson

The Active Viewer: Critical Viewing Skills in the Classroom by Jack Livesley

Part III: Television Literacy and Social Policy

U.S. Children's Television in Crisis: Problems of Tradition, Vision, and Value by Edward L. Palmer

Children's Television in Canada: Program Policy in the Eighties by Frederick B. Rainsberry

Communications Media in the Eighties: Priorities for Children's Television by Jean NcNulty

Children, Culture, and the Curriculum of Television: The Challenge for Education by Michael E. Manley-Casimir

Part IV: Annotated Bibliography

Children and Television by Carmen Luke