Developing Critical Viewing Skills and Media Literacy in Children

A theoretical discussion concerning the meaning of media literacy and the rationale for targeting such a topic to children is presented. Based on the research demonstrating negative effects of television viewing by children, the need for schools to teach critical thinking about popular media is then...

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Critical thinking
Curricula
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Literacy
Mass Media
Mass media criticism
Media
Media literacy
Public Schools
School age children
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Television programs
Television studies
Television viewers
Television viewing
Television violence
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