Educational Pitch Development for Sesame Street: Integrating Knowledge-Centered and Community-Centered Approaches
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This paper presents a pitch concept for Sesame Street educational programming focused on teaching children about boats and their dual functions in everyday living contexts. The student analyzes production strategies employed, including knowledge-centered and community-centered approaches, while reflecting on the challenges of research integration and the practical implementation of educational content for children's television.
What this coursework covers
- Pitch concept analysis: boats as tools for transportation and fishing activities within everyday living contexts
- Production strategies: knowledge-centered approach employing critical thinking and community-centered approach integrating cultural aspects
- Reflection on development process: challenges of research integration versus ease of television production implementation
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When fishing nets and fishing rods are in the boat, the child can indicate that the boat is always used for fishing. The interpretation of the above goals was based on the context's theme and location (Burn, 2009). Since the location is the boat, it can be deduced that the boat always has two primary functions, which are; transportation of goods and passengers and fishing activities. Since the theme is everyday living, it has to be fishing since the economic aspect of life is an everyday activity. The boat's essential function can be fishing since it is a primary economic activity for most people who own a boat. The boat is a small vessel; thus, children can be able to get closer.
One of the production strategies that I used in achieving the objective of the pitch is the knowledge-centered approach, as it involves a series of critical and strategic thinking. The boat serves two primary sources; fishing is an economic activity, making it a daily life activity. Besides, the community-centered approach is also crucial towards achieving the objective (Burn, 2009). This involves integrating the cultural aspect in the assessment. A particular situation is always community-centered in that certain norms can lead to certain situations. The fact that fishing is a postulated everyday activity allows children to interact with boats for various cultural reasons.
Through the experience of developing a pitch in the Children's Television Workshop, the most challenging part is the researchers.