Education and Television: Theory and Practice

Abstract

Television and school are in many people’s minds opposed: watching television is something you choose to do in your leisure time, whereas school is often associated, at best, with work and obligatory attendance. But these institutions together occupy a significant part of our time, which they fill with meanings, directing us into a particular way of making sense of the world. And the extent to which this ‘sense’ is exactly a common one seems to me more significant than the apparent differences between the institutions.