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Bring the World to the Child: Grassroots Media and Global Citizenship in American Education, 1900-1965.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Bring the World to the Child: Grassroots Media and Global Citizenship in American Education, 1900-1965./
Author:	Good, Katherine Day.
Description:	339 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-10A(E).
Subject:	Communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3705253
ISBN:	9781321781373

Bring the World to the Child: Grassroots Media and Global Citizenship in American Education, 1900-1965.
Good, Katherine Day.

Bring the World to the Child: Grassroots Media and Global Citizenship in American Education, 1900-1965. - 339 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2015.

This thesis examines the convergence of mediated instruction and global educational initiatives in American schools in the first half of the twentieth century. Its premise is that as American society became more internationally connected through new technology, immigration, and geopolitics in this period, schools came under increasing pressure to shape students into more "world-minded" subjects and media-literate citizens. These social priorities led to a surge in new media and communication practices in schools that were at once local in formulation and ambitiously global in orientation. Through archival and discursive analysis of grassroots communication practices such as audiovisual instruction, peace performances and projects, and mediated intercultural exchanges, I argue that schools became active domains of not only global media reception, but also global cultural production and circulation in American everyday life. Believing school-based communication and technology could provide a more authentic alternative to mass media, progressive educators aimed to transform schools into powerful informational agencies that could uplift communities, strengthen democracy, and promote appreciation for diversity at home and abroad. Despite these hopes, educationalists' efforts to mediate the world were often marked by the same ideological contradictions and Amerocentric thinking prevalent in the dominant culture that they wished to reform.

ISBN: 9781321781373Subjects--Topical Terms:

524709
Communication.

Bring the World to the Child: Grassroots Media and Global Citizenship in American Education, 1900-1965.
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