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Waters, Sharon Campbell.

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Media influence on pre-middle school African Americans' perceptions toward science, mathematics, and technology courses and careers.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Media influence on pre-middle school African Americans' perceptions toward science, mathematics, and technology courses and careers./
Author:	Waters, Sharon Campbell.
Description:	270 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-03, Section: A, page: 0806.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-03A.
Subject:	Mass Communications. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3167381
ISBN:	9780542027543

Media influence on pre-middle school African Americans' perceptions toward science, mathematics, and technology courses and careers.
Waters, Sharon Campbell.

Media influence on pre-middle school African Americans' perceptions toward science, mathematics, and technology courses and careers. - 270 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-03, Section: A, page: 0806.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Regent University, 2005.

A variety of previous studies have suggested that inaccurate, stereotypical or missing media depictions of science, engineering, and technology (SET) workers and fields have contributed to a growing shortage of youth interested in pursuing careers within the scientific endeavor. However, studies on the perceptions of African American youth have not usually been the focus of such research. In this exploratory study, in-depth interviews were conducted with 34 fifth grade African American students to determine the relative influence television and film portrayals of SET workers had on these children's perceptions of roles in SET fields and careers and school coursework related to them. Framed within the theoretical perspectives of cultivation analysis and the construction of social reality, results indicated the majority of participants perceived scientists as ambiguous, possessing either mythic characteristics of the fantastic persona or they saw them as altruistically inclined figures that saved the world from disease, destruction, and decay. Television and film portrayals of SET workers were found in varying degrees and ways to shape these African American children's perceptions toward SET careers. While children exhibited self-concepts about SET workers that were sometimes idealistic, distorted, or unrealistic, most had favorable perceptions toward math and science courses in school. However, it was the absence of television and film portrayals of African Americans in SET roles that was problematic for the majority of students. Recommendations for media producers, educators, scientific research foundations, and parents were suggested to dispel some of these commonly found media stereotypes of SET workers and African Americans in these roles and their effects.

ISBN: 9780542027543Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017395
Mass Communications.

Media influence on pre-middle school African Americans' perceptions toward science, mathematics, and technology courses and careers.
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