Children's Learning from Educational Television Book

	Preface
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Empirical data
2	Sesame street and school readiness	15
3	Other preschool series and school readiness	35
4	Literacy	56
5	Mathematics and problem solving	70
6	Science and technology	83
7	Civics and social studies	95
8	Prosocial programming	105
9	Adult mediation : parents, teachers, child-care providers	122
Pt. II	Theoretical approaches
10	Comprehension of educational content : the capacity model	141
11	Transfer of learning from educational television : when and why does it occur?	164
12	The social nature of children's learning from educational television	178
Pt. III	The future
13	Looking to the future : convergence and educational television	195
	References	209
	Author index	239
	Subject index	249