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  Storytelling and the Role of Imagination in Educational Children's TV of the 1980s

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  Caroline Ferris Leader University of Texas at Austin

  February 01, 2012

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  concerns of child development. In the 1980s, trending educational thought on imagination as a learning tool ... energetic learning tools” despite the existing focus on “logical thinking.”  However, imaginative learning ... is complex, with seemingly real but unquantifiable benefits to children’s learning. This fascination ...
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  Exploring 'Educational Entertainment': ‘On (the) Ontogeny of Orange Oscar’

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  Josh Shepperd Catholic University

  October 05, 2011

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  strategies. When the broadcasting model of radio emerged in 1921, distance-learning administrators seized upon ... that was both effective and stimulating. By the mid-1960s educators had learned to consolidate critical ... curricular content and experiential learning into the formal commercial conventions of children's ...
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  The “N” Word

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  Tim Havens University of Iowa

  February 12, 2007

  always run up against the fact that meaning only inheres in the social uses of culture, in the encounter ...
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  The Great American Dream Machine

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  Laurie Ouellette University of Minnesota

  October 03, 2011

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  The Great American Dream Machine satire PBS history of television culture wars Curator's Note This past summer, PBS affiliates aired a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of The Great American Dream Machine (PBS, 1971-1972), one of the earliest (an ...