Research on self-described television viewing behavior among college students and elderly adults indicated that television viewing, especially of stereotyped programs, is positively related to adult sex role stereotyped attitudes. The results suggest that adults' sex role attitudes are likely to be reinforced by their own television viewing…

Television can enrich the offerings of formal education; and if overall improvement of commercial television quality is the ultimate goal, then educators should work with parents to regulate children's viewing and to help children develop more discriminating television viewing habits. (CMV)

Explores the role children's cartoon programs may play in forming sex role identities in children through the presentation of sex-typed personality attributes of the cartoon characters. Fourteen dependent variables of cartoon character personality were analyzed by sex of the character and sex of the viewer. (JVP)

This article provides a subject index back to 1975 of the "TV Talk" column and other Teacher magazine articles concerning television. Topics include the use of TV in elementary language arts, math, reading, and social studies, as well as suggestions for parents and articles on television as a medium. (SJL)

The author suggests that teachers can learn much about teaching styles by watching television. She looks at the quiz show host, the talk show host, and the superstar; drawing from their performance techniques methods that teachers can apply in, respectively, recitation exercises, class discussions, and generating classroom enthusiasm. (SJL)

A variety of dynamic television related classroom activities involving reading, writing, and arithmetic skills encourage a broader use of thinking skills. Such activities support instructional goals set for students and promote television literacy. (CJ)

When parents and educators are dismayed by the younger generation's declining skills, future orientation, and interest in success, they should direct their concern to the interplay between "video Valhalla," narcissistic consumerism, and open education in today's enculturative processes. (Author/IRT)

The introduction of literature through topic parallels in popular commercial television produces gratifying results, making students feel more at ease, more confident, more able to participate, and more willing to enter the new world of literature. (Author/CMV)

A survey of cable television subscribers suggests that Public Broadcasting System programing benefits from repeat scheduling since regardless of which time a show might be dropped from the schedule about 23 percent of the audience would be lost, compared to a 12.2 percent audience loss for commercial entertainment programs. (GT)

Children's television transmitted by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Independent Broadcasting Authority is reviewed and various types of programs are described. (RAO)

Briefly describes television programing for children in Mexico and lists (in Spanish) those presented at the Universities of Iberoamericana and Anahuac on children's television. (RAO)

Investigates the image of the contemporary American woman as currently presented on television through viewing approximately 34 hours of programing and recording the following characteristics: regularity of character, occupations of characters, general demographics, and themes and topics discussed. (CWM)

Reviews a project to promote the incorporation of commercial television viewing experiences as a topic of parent and child interaction, examining specifically how to promote joint viewing of programs by parents and children for conversational purposes, and whether changes in the nature of interaction would result. (CWM)

Reviews corporate involvement in education, highlighting partnership efforts of Channel One, Turner Communications, Pizza Hut, and School Properties, a professional fund-raising company. School can best utilize corporate America by refusing to become beggars. Instead, a system should be established (from the federal level down to individual…

Outlines a course covering the history of film and televisual representations of the Vietnam War. Shows how to relate films to the social interests they serve, and describes how to relate form to function. Provides a list of recommended films, television shows, and readings for each of the course's 10 units. (MM)