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Sunny Days on Sesame Street? Multiculturalism and Resistance Postmodernism
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In this paper, the role of educational children's television as a contributor to the forging of the notion of multiculturalism by analyzing Sesame Street's suitability as a tool for multicultural pedagogy is discussed.Abstract:
Now in its fourth decade, Sesame Street, which has been called one of the most influential children's shows in television history, plays an important role in shaping society's construction of multiculturalism. This article addresses the role of educational children's television as a contributor to the forging of the notion of multiculturalism by analyzing Sesame Street's suitability as a tool for multicultural pedagogy. Using McLaren's theory of resistance postmodernism (1994), this study argues that while Sesame Street does not directly provide a language for educators to critique social and cultural practices, it is a text that allows and invites multifaceted dialogues that critically discern an Other in the construction of identity.read more
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Occupied childhoods: discourses and politics of childhood and their place in Palestinian and Pan-Arab screen content for children
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore changing discourses of childhood and the ways in which power relations intersect with socio-cultural norms to shape screen-based media for Palestinian children, and demonstrate that complex ideological and political factors are at play, which has led to the marginalisation, politicisation and internationalisation of local production for children.
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Parasocial Breakup Among Young Children in the United States
TL;DR: A survey of parents of children 2 to 8 years old was conducted to investigate parasocial relationships (PSR) and experiences with parasocial breakup among young children as mentioned in this paper, and the results indicated that boys were significantly more likely to have a female favorite character at a younger age than at their current age, but girls were no more likely than having a male favorite character.
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“They Are?!”: Latino Difference vis-à-vis Dragon Tales
TL;DR: The authors examines the ways that the animated children's program Dragon Tales wavers between deracinating its lead characters, Emmy and Max, and exoticizing the racialized difference that Enrique, a recent addition to the program, embodies.
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Behind the Screen: The Role of State‐TV Relationships in Russia, 1990–2000*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the content of television programs is influenced by how their production is organized and regulated, and they use qualitative interviews with Russian television industry insiders to examine the impact of changes in the regulation of television on the types and content of programs produced between 1990 and 2000.
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Reproducing “Really Useful” Workers: Children's Television as an Ideological State Apparatus
Abstract: This article compares three popular children's public television shows—Thomas & Friends, Barney & Friends, and Bob the Builder—to an earlier PBS children's program, Sesame Street. Utilizing Althusser's theory of ideology and Hall's theory on encoding/decoding, we examine the underlying process of signification in these media texts and argue that children's television plays an important role as an Ideological State Apparatus (ISA). We complicate the existing research on children's television programming and provide an alternative approach for understanding, situating the content of these shows against the sociohistorical changes in the social relations of production that have occurred since the emergence of neoliberal capitalism as a dominant ideological discourse. We argue that newer media texts such as Thomas are more closed than Sesame Street, which emerged prior to the shift toward neoliberalism, though in the newer programs contradictions exist that could serve to undermine rather than support neolibe...
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The postmodern condition : a report on knowledge
TL;DR: In this article, the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and how the flow of information is controlled in the Western world are discussed.
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The ecstasy of communication
TL;DR: Baudrillard's The Ecstasy of Communication as mentioned in this paper is an anti-manifesto that confronted and dispensed with such influences as Marshall McLuhan, Guy Debord, and Georges Bataille.
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Between Borders : Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies
Henry A. Giroux,Peter McLaren +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Giroux, Collins, Ava Collins, Nancy Fraser, Carol Becker, bell hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, Roger I. Simon, Chandra Talpede Mohanty, Simon Watney, Michele Wallace, Peter McLaren, David Trend, Abdul R. Mohamed and Kenneth Mostern.
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Words from Sesame Street : learning vocabulary while viewing
TL;DR: In this paper, a longitudinal investigation of preschool children's viewing of Sesame Street and their vocabulary development was conducted, and they found that preschool children watched Sesame TV more than other media.
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Multiculturalism and the postmodern critique: Towards a pedagogy of resistance and transformation
TL;DR: For the proletariat does not need all the thousands of little words by which the bourgeoisie masks class struggles in its own pedagogy as mentioned in this paper, and these we can do without without.