| Autor: |
Robert P. Snow, Cuthbertson, Beverly Ann |
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Teaching Sociology; Oct79, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p65-78, 14p |
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For several decades educators and media professionals have experimented with the versatility of television as a teaching tool. A range of trials has been witnessed from the broadcasting of straight lectures to sophisticated productions such as "Nova" and Jacob Bronowski's "The Ascent of Man." Yet to date, with the exception of children's programming, little attention has been given to the use of entertainment media for educational purposes. In the fall semester of 1978 the authors conducted an experiment by offering an upper-division social-psychology course designed around the dramatic BBC television series "The Prisoner," starring Patrick McGoohan.' It was found that social-psychological concepts were comprehended, integrated and applied with relative ease through the medium. A fascinating and unexpected finding was that a number of students used their experience with "The Prisoner" as a therapeutic form of self-counseling. The seventeen-episode series depicted the trials of a man faced with repeated attempts to reshape his identity and force him to conform to an alien culture. |
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