A Strategy for Reviewing the Role of Educational Television in Infants' Schools |
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| Authors: | Ernest Choat |
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| Institution: | Dr Choat, until recently Principal Lecturer in Education, University of London Goldsmiths' College, is now Director, Incorporating Educational Television into the Curriculum for Children up to Age Seven Years Project, University of London Institute of Education. A primary school teacher for a number of years, Dr Choat has researched extensively into children's early learning and particularly how they acquire experience of their world through mathematics. Address for correspondence: 10 Essex Road, South Woodford, London E18 1JS. |
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| Abstract: | Minimal consideration has been given to the function of educational television in the education of young children. Teachers have to overcome habits adopted with children's home viewing, and rationalize how television can be part of the curriculum before efficacy materializes. This does not appear to be happening with many infants' school teachers. Educational television broadcasts do not seem to be used as an ongoing teaching element to stimulate experiences beyond children's normal school activities. The entire blame cannot be attributed to the teachers for they have been given little guidance on the use of educational television during initial training or in subsequent in-service provisions, and in curriculum theory. It is necessary therefore to collect and analyse carefully information about the effects of educational television on infants' school children and the conditions which appear to influence whether or not it is educationally effective, but this cannot be done until a satisfactory monitoring procedure is established. |
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