Pradeep Kumar Misra

Educational Television in Germany: Perspectives, Policies, and Practices Pradeep Kumar Misra

The educational television has still not achieved its fullest potential neither in developed nor in developing countries. This worldwide under performance invite experts and academicians to join hands to search causes and provide remedies to make television a formidable learning tool. Guided by this philosophy, the present book analyzes the educational television in Germany from different perspectives. The book focuses on policies and practices adopted by German broadcasters and institutions to promote educational television and ongoing educational television experiments in Germany. The book further deals with other very relevant and prominent issue of opportunities and threats posed by internet for educational television and attempts to determine that whether German youths still prefer and use educational television in internet age. Besides dealing with these issues, the book suggests best adoptable educational television practices from Germany to promote educational television world over. In a nutshell, this book is for educational planners, teachers and institutions to realize and utilize the potential of television to make it a foremost learning tool in 21st Century.