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That's a strange claim since the primary complaint abut Elmo was the elimination of Big Bird's social-emotional learning. Sesame Street is for pre-schoolers, w
by lonelappde 7y ago
That's a strange claim since the primary complaint abut Elmo was the elimination of Big Bird's social-emotional learning.
Sesame Street is for pre-schoolers, which was never academic outside of a cadre of upper class dog-eat-dog New Yorkers
- balls187 7y ago> , which was never academic outside of a cadre of upper class dog-eat-dog New Yorkers Can you explain what you mean by this?
- shantly 7y agoI wouldn't immediately dismiss the claim that the Elmo stuff has more explicit social-emotional teaching, as in "here's the thing we're teaching in this skit and exactly what we want you to learn!", while Big Bird's was more implicit and role-model driven (though I don't want to claim it was always subtle and didn't ever just come out and state what it was trying to get across, of course—there was plenty of that). I haven't sampled enough Elmo-street lately to know whether that's true, but it could be.