A Case Study of Channel One in the Instruction and Curriculum of a Middle School.

Autor/in	Ehman, Lee H.
Titel	A Case Study of Channel One in the Instruction and Curriculum of a Middle School.
Quelle	(1995), (40 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Case Studies; Curriculum Development; Educational Television; Instructional Materials; Intermediate Grades; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Programming (Broadcast); Use Studies; World Views + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Bildungsfernsehen; Schulfernsehen; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien; Mittelstufe; Sekundarstufe I; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Programmgestaltung; Benutzerschulung; World view; Weltanschauung
Abstract	The study examines the instructional use of Channel One in a middle school over 18 months' time. Channel One is a 12-minute educational television news program broadcast daily to over 12,000 U.S. secondary schools. It is argued that while many students watch the programming, there is only a small minority of the classrooms where teachers actively incorporated it into their teaching. Two surveys of students, teachers, and parents were conducted, as well as class observations and teacher and administrator interviews. It is found that the teachers actively using Channel One create a curriculum fragment that leads to "real world" as distinct from "school" knowledge. Students are made aware of personal, political and social ideas not previously understood, and they are found to act on this knowledge by using newly acquired language in venues outside the formal school curriculum. Channel One forces a teacher to choose between the two kinds of knowledge; the majority of teachers in this study decided to forgo any serious consideration of Channel One's worldly knowledge in favor of the formal school knowledge already part of the curriculum. It is suggested that in ignoring Channel One, opportunities for exploring issues of direct relevance to young adults are lost, as well as the chance to contextualize and reflect on worldly knowledge. (Contains 26 references.) (AEF)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC