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Record Nr.

UNINA9910574045803321

Autore

Bazalgette Cary

Titolo

How Toddlers Learn the Secret Language of Movies / / by Cary Bazalgette

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030974688

9783030974671

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages)

Disciplina

372.21

Soggetti

Sociology

Social groups

Early childhood education

Mass media and culture

Developmental psychology

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

Early Childhood Education

Media Culture

Child and Adolescence Psychology

Cognitive Development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- Part I: Background and Argument -- 2. Beyond "Risks or Benefits" -- 3. Two-Year-Olds' Movie Learning -- 4. The Nature of the System -- 5. Evolution, Neuroscience and Embodied Cognition -- Part II: Aspects of Movie-Learning -- 6. Fear, Distress and Sadness -- 7. Reality and Make-Believe -- 8. Understanding Narrative -- 9. Viewing Together -- 10. The Value of Movie-Learning.

Sommario/riassunto

This book takes a radically new approach to the well-worn topic of children's relationship with the media, avoiding the "risks and benefits" paradigm while examining very young children's interactions with film and television. Bazalgette proposes a refocus on the learning processes that children must go through in order to understand what they are



watching on televisions, phones, or iPads. To demonstrate this, she offers unique insight from research done with her twin grandchildren starting from just before they were two years old, with analysis drawn from the field of embodied cognition to help identify minute behaviours and expressions as signals of emotions and thought processes. The book makes the case that all inquiry into early childhood movie-viewing should be based on the premise that learning–usually self-driven–is taking place throughout. Cary Bazalgette is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Culture, Communication, and Media at theUCL Institute of Education, UK. Previously, she was Head of Education at the British Film Institute. .