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Postman, Neil – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1981
Examines the effects of television on children and asserts that its most serious consequence may be the erosion of the dividing line between childhood and adulthood. (APM)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Role, Childhood Attitudes, Children
Peer reviewedPostman, Neil – Educational Leadership, 1983
American culture appears to be the enemy of childhood. Children now look, dress, talk, and behave like adults. At the same time, adults have become more like children. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Role, Childhood Interests, Children
Postman, Neil – Phi Delta Kappan, 1981
Television erases the dividing line between childhood and adulthood because it requires no instruction to grasp its form and because it does not segregate its audience. Television creates a population in which everyone is fixed at an age somewhere between 20 and 30. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Child Role, Children, Commercial Television, Elementary Secondary Education
