Victoria Cain

Schools and Screens

A Watchful History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Cain chronicles twentieth-century schools' experiments with screen media and investigates the contests over citizenship and civic education that emerged in reaction"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 138mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780262548533
• ISBN-10: 0262548534
• Artikelnr.: 68279783

Autorenporträt

Victoria Cain is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern University and coauthor of Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1. Civic Spectatorship: Making Citizens through Screens, 1933-1946 13
2. Better Teaching Through Technology, 1953-1962 43
3. Multimedia for Thinking and Feeling, 1962-1974 75
4. Critical Viewing: Literacy and Media in a Televised Age, 1969-1992 105
5. Personal Screens, 1977-2000 141
Conclusions 175
Acknowledgments 187
Archival Abbreviations 189
Notes 191
Index 261