Current theories of national economic development are reviewed and found unsatisfactory, and an alternative scheme is presented, based on the concepts of consumerism and producerism, as well as the realization that development is not a unitary phenomenon, but proceeds at different rates in different sectors of the economy and different parts of a…

The 1972 WEST conference report represents a cooperative project of the Western Educational Society for Telecommunications and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Media and Technology. The conference featured discussions of public television, instructional television, cable television, national educational radio, and national public radio, educational…

The time for local groups to pressure local broadcasters for better children's television is now. Federal Communications Commission guidelines encourage broadcasters to involve the community in program planning. And a growing number of groups across the country have been participating. The San Francisco Committee on Children's Television, founded…

Representative democracy is unlikely to persist for long in its present state of instability. Unless we move forward into a more participatory democracy we may find our government increasingly bland and manipulative, brutish and tyrannical. The fundamental question about television is how it can help the growth of participatory democracy. We need…

This document stresses the problems involved in communicating science to the public; some suggestions, however, are discussed that have proved successful in this task. Television is cited as a good medium to present the scientist as someone other than the usual stereotype. Advice is given on how to present science to the public via television. The…

Traces the development of the American television industry as a major unelective source of power, cause of changes in social behavior, and factor in the management of the economy. Suggests ways to make use of educational broadcasting and to initiate a mechanism for critical analysis of the institutional structure of television. (Author/AV)

Describes the evolution of a state-wide "TV College" system in Connecticut, including centralized administrative development, course selection and evaluation, scheduling, promotion and advertising, fee structures, and budgeting processes. (RT)

Louisiana Public Broadcasting's (LPB's) Educational Services Directory presents an alphabetical listing of instructional television (ITV) program descriptions, a program schedule, and other educational services information. Sections in this Directory include: ITV Series Descriptions; ITV Broadcast Schedule; Program Content matrix; Going the…

Describes a program for early childhood educators that capitalizes on television technology to help trainees scattered all over the map. (Editor)

Findings from an experiment designed to discover if color could improve learning from television. (Author/HB)

A description of the television studio facilities for the schools in Frankfort, Germany. (HB)

Project Rural Family Development combines television, home study materials, telephone problem-solving service and home visitation into an effective new educational system. (Author)

The Agency for Instructional Television (AIT) has proposed a cooperative project among the states and provinces to develop instructional materials combining the use of microcomputers and television in a move to improve the problem-solving abilities of students in the sixth through eighth grades. (MP)

The two and one half week workshop on television literacy for teachers that is described covered the historical development of television, advertising and the "hidden message," news programing, sociological and psychological perspectives, the development of critical viewing skills, and classroom applications. Course objectives, requirements, and…