In-Class Activities

Children’s Media: Governmental Policy and Learning

Author: Sara Lindey, Ph.D.

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Susan Linn: The Problem of Edu-tainment (PDF Transcript)

Discuss the clip, “Susan Linn: The Problem of Edu-tainment,” from the Fred Rogers Oral History Project Interviews wherein Susan Linn, director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, canvases such issues as current pedagogical imperatives, governmental policy, and edutainment. 

Complementary Materials:
Pecora, N. (2007). The changing nature of children’s television: Fifty years of research. In N. Pecora, J.P. Murray, & E. A. Wartella (Eds.), Children and television: fifty years of research (pp. 1-40). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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