Programs, Correspondence, 1968, January-July (1968)

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-75- We recommend strongly, therefore, the development of materials that are "group structured" on television. Operating on the principle that this element (emotional identification) is a real factor in the learning process. Given a homogeneous "mix" at the outset, both in the television studio and in the learning (classroom) setting, we can look forward to deeply meaningful experiences occurring, if not significant breakĀ¬ throughs, in the uses of mass communications for education. We must also become aware of another fact: the learning "setting" will be unique here. Program enrollee and teacher will find themselves in an environment far removed from almost any available description of an "educational setting" as we have come to know and identify it. This must have some important bearing on how we plan our television support programs, as will be seen later (See Section Eight). The problem of programming for people living in an urban ghetto is one thing, developing