THEA 80L Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sesame Workshop, Consumerism, Loretta Long
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Pedagogy (how the teaching is represented- creating passive students who wait for the numbers?) Consumerism issues (how much licensing has been done to the muppets and sesame. Widely accessible medium such as television could teach large numbers of children at relatively little cost per child. Sesame had innovative magazine formats variety of types of segments, including puppet, animation, and live actions films. Material that was found appealing to children was included in the series if not, then was cut. Ctw brings together content experts, television producers, and educational researchers, who collaborate throughout the life of the project. Gerald lesser, was a professor at the harvard school of education who went to sesame. Palmer developed a method known as the distractor method. To boost the appeal of the street segments, they included muppets on the street and created two new muppets expressly for this purpose, oscar the grouch and big bird. Sesame has aired in more than 140 countries.
