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Children’s Television: Eye Gaze

Author: Sara Lindey, Ph.D.

Related Videos:
Mister Rogers:  Growing on the Inside
Mister Rogers: Creativity and Imagination
Nancy Curry:  Eye Gaze (PDF Transcript)
Kirk Browning: The Emotion of Television (PDF Transcript)

Show the following clips to spark discussion about how television can be used to mimic eye gaze. Discuss the theories surrounding eye gaze and how television can and cannot be used to model that behavior for the benefit of children’s development.
Mister Rogers: Ways We Grow
Mister Rogers: Creativity and Imagination

To add context, show the video clip, “Nancy Curry: Eye Gaze,” from the Fred Rogers Oral History Project interviews wherein Nancy Curry, early childhood education scholar and Fred Rogers’ sons’ teacher, discusses Rogers’ use of television.

To add context show the video clip, “Kirk Browning: The Emotion of Television,” from the Fred Rogers Oral History Project interview in which Kirk Browning, acclaimed director of Live From Lincoln Center, ten of which won Emmy Awards, among many other live programs, Broadway telecasts, and a variety of television programs, is asked what his own work in television had in common with Fred Rogers’ values and approach.  Browning discusses how the television viewer becomes emotionally involved with the media, especially through the camera’s eye.

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