Television, video games, and computers are easily accessible to 21st Century children, but what impact do they have on creativity and imagination? This book looks at the cognitive and moral potential - and concern - created by electronic media.

Autorentext

Dorothy G. Singer is Senior Research Scientist in Psychology at Yale University. Jerome L. Singer is Professor Emeritus in Psychology at Yale University. They co-direct the Yale Family Television Research and Consultation Center.

Klappentext
enrich children's creativity and play, and can even promote school readiness. With guidance from parents and teachers, empathy, creativity, and imagination can expand and intensify in the electronic age.

Zusammenfassung
Television, video games, and computers are easily accessible to twenty-first-century children, but what impact do they have on creativity and imagination? In this book, two wise and long-admired observers of children's make-believe look at the cognitive and moral potential--and concern--created by electronic media.

Inhalt
Prologue 1. Our Conscious Imagination 2. Play: Its Beginnings and Stages 3. Television and Imagination 4. Violent Themes in Play, TV Content, and Video Games 5. Adrift in Cyberspace: Children and Computer Play 6. A Role for Play in Early Learning Epilogue References Index