{"product_id":"the-arts-and-play-as-educational-media-in-the-digital-age-9781433154263","title":"The Arts and Play as Educational Media in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe digital revolution we are now entering as educators is an unchartered sea pregnant with wondrous possibilities but laden with a minefield of unforeseen consequences. A pedagogy that overlooks or downplays the disruptive and often dangerous influence of digital media on childhood development is necessarily a very shortsighted one. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than just highlighting our misgivings about digital media, however, this book has a purpose far more ambitious and infinitely more useful. Based upon 45 years of work with young people in Jersey City classrooms, day camps, housing projects, libraries, church basements and community centers, the authors propose a pedagogical strategy that uses hands-on experiences in the arts as a strategy to offset and counterbalance the dominance of digital media in the lives of children. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than call for the elimination of digital mediaclearly an impossibility even if it were desirablethe authors maintain that children need to be exposed to non-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue – Introduction: When Change Changed –\u003cb\u003e The Digital Storm\u003c\/b\u003e – A Descent into the Maelström: The Digital Environment of Childhood – The Faustian Dilemma: The Unintended Consequences of Digital Media – Building Noah’s Arks: Media Environments and Counterenvironments – The Man Who Had No Story: Why the Arts in Education Matter –\u003cb\u003eTeaching as a Creative Activity\u003c\/b\u003e –\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eThe Oral Curriculum: A Prelude to Literacy and Learning – Building a Bridge to Literacy: Drama in Education as a Pedagogical Method – The Seesaw Principle: Summer Camp as Counterenvironment – Epilogue – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039633768791,"sku":"9781433154263","price":29.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433154263.jpg?v=1750944324","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-arts-and-play-as-educational-media-in-the-digital-age-9781433154263","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}