In-Class Activities
Child Development: Children’s Values and Religion
Author: Sara Lindey, Ph.D.
Related Videos:
Mister Rogers: Giving and Receiving
Susan Linn: Reflections on the Santa Claus Episode
(PDF Transcript)
Show the clip, “Susan Linn: Reflections on the Santa Claus Episode,” from the Fred Rogers Oral History Project interview wherein Susan Linn, director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, discusses an episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood where Santa Claus appears. She finds two great strengths to that episode: one regarding children’s maturity and imaginative play and the second regarding cultural sensitivity in religious issues.
Precede Susan Linn’s video clip with the scenes she discusses from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood in the clip, “Mister Rogers: Giving and Receiving.”
Complementary Materials:
Guy, W. (1996). The theology of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. In M. Collins & M. Kimmel (Eds.), Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: Children, television, and Fred Rogers (pp. 101-123). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
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nicki apostolow on 06/13/2011 at 9:32pm
mr rogers neighborhood advocated happiness for our contemporary world. he also supported alternative television and civil liberties in regards to television programming. thank you, mr. rogers.