Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ276005
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983-Jan
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Available Date: N/A
The Disappearance of Childhood.
Postman, Neil
Children's Theatre Review, v32 n1 p19-23 Jan 1983
Argues that television is causing the rapid disappearance of childhood--a state of affairs which represents a social disaster of the first order. Traces the history of childhood and points out the ways television erases the dividing line between childhood and adulthood. (PD)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, History, Literacy, Mass Media, Reading, Television, Television Viewing
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Opinion Papers
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Author Affiliations: N/A
