Southeast Center for Education in the Arts

Gaining a deeper understanding and appreciation for the numerous art forms comprising television can strengthen students' abilities to perceive and interpret visual symbols, stories and messages in our increasingly complex media-saturated society. This 121-page Framework was authored for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation by Kim Wheetley (SCEA director) and Cyrice Griffith-Siebens. It provides background information and instructional strategies to actively engage students in exploring the artistic processes utilized to create and electronically communicate visual stories.

In February 1999, the Academy Foundation was awarded a J. Paul Getty Trust/Education Institute for the Arts grant to develop A Framework for Teaching & Learning through the Arts & Technologies of Television. The project convened sixty educators in the field of arts education with five representatives of the creative leadership of the Academy membership who considered, identified and discussed how core elements of television design and production might be explored in K-12 learning environments.

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