Schools should stake out a corrective niche that complements and balances event-centered media¶

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Description¶

The essay recommends that schools select a niche complementing other educative agencies: correcting distortions, supplying missing detail, and asserting the value of long-term trends where media attend to short-term events. "The schools must stake out a niche that balances and corrects the media," looking beneath the apparent event at the phenomena really involved and revealing that other times and places believe differently. Every young person should have lasting school experiences demonstrating that there are substrata to the visible event and that culture affects the perception of human affairs.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Schools must act as agents of an academic tradition that encourages scrutiny of the conventional and obvious, not merely as carriers of national culture

Constraints¶

• The essay admits the limited impact of formal schooling against the drama of mass media and the grip of the peer group, and expects only a corrective, complementary role

Target Learners¶

• Elementary and secondary students in the U.S.

Target Learning Goals¶

• Reacting to media reports with awareness that there may be more than meets the eye and that other eyes might see it differently

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Key Sources¶

• Hanvey, Robert G. (1975). An Attainable Global Perspective. Center for War/Peace Studies. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED116993