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More on Television
Publication: AMS News, vol. 5, no. 4
Date: 1974
Pages: 5, 7
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Language: English
ISSN: 0065-9444
Article
In the Home: Your Child and Television
Publication: AMS News, vol. 4, no. 2
Date: 1973
Pages: 5
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Language: English
ISSN: 0065-9444
Doctoral Dissertation (Ph.D. In Communications)
Television as Activity System: "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" and the Development of Polite Behavior Routines in Preschoolers
Available from: ProQuest - Dissertations and Theses
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Abstract/Notes: This dissertation examines the role of quality age-appropriate television in children's knowledge of polite behavior routines. The television program used is from the series "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" and the child subjects are preschoolers in a Montessori school in a midwestern University town. The study asks: What do preschoolers know about appropriate host-guest behaviors and from where does this knowledge come? A developmental investigation of preschoolers' knowledge of polite behavior routines and their learning from the television program is undertaken using the theoretical framework of Soviet activity theory. By framing the interacting elements in the study as an activity system, a study design in five phases emerges. The phases include: observations of children in the classroom environment; a deep reading of the program; interviews with the program's producers; a study of children's learning from the program and knowledge of host-guest behaviors, and; surveys and interviews with parents intended to establish family attitudes and methods for teaching polite behaviors. Results from the five phases are integrated and analyzed within the framework of activity theory. It is concluded that preschoolers have quite a bit of knowledge about how to interact as hosts and guests and that they do imitate and learn from an appropriate television program. Their knowledge of appropriate behaviors and their memory and comprehension for the televised messages increase with age from three to five years. There also appears to be an affective component, involving fear related to strange situations, at work for the youngest children, which may contribute to inhibiting their performance of appropriate behaviors. The television program, the school, and the home, which in this study all reflect middle-class American values, parallel each other in the behaviors they encourage. And although the importance of this kind of television programming is acknowledged, it is concluded that children's abilities in this domain are stretched more by interacting with an adult, that is, learning takes place in the "zone of proximal development" in a role-playing situation, but not simply as a result of viewing.
Language: English
Published: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1993
Article
The Effect of Television Violence on Children and Youth
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1974-1989), vol. 3, no. 1
Date: Spring 1976
Pages: 27-32
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Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X
Article
Questions for Discussion [Television]
Publication: Montessori Talks to Parents Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1
Date: 1982
Pages: 8
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Language: English
ISSN: 0749-565X
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Imagination, Television and the Older Child
Publication: Montessori Talks to Parents Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1
Date: 1982
Pages: 6-7
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Language: English
ISSN: 0749-565X
Article
Television Research
Publication: Montessori Courier, vol. 3, no. 3
Date: Aug 1991
Pages: 25
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Language: English
ISSN: 0959-4108
Article
Reading and Television
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 3, no. 5
Date: 1995
Pages: 10–12
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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Renaissance Parenting: Television! Passive Observation of Life
Publication: Montessori NewZ, vol. 10
Date: Jun 1998
Pages: 5
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Language: English
Article
Commonsense Guidelines for Children and Television
Publication: Montessori Matters
Date: 1987
Pages: 11–13
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Language: English