Chapter 3: The Challenge of the Mass Media in Contemporary American Education

Carpenter Edmund , and McLuhan Marshall “Acoustic Space,” in Carpenter Edmund , and McLuhan Marshall (ed.), Explorations in Communications (Boston: Beacon Press, 1960), 65–67.

Carpenter Edmund “The New Languages,” in Carpenter , and McLuhan (ed.), Explorations in Communications, 164–166.

McLuhan Marshall Understanding Media; The Extension of Man (N.Y.: McGraw Hill, 1964), 87.

Carpenter , and McLuhan Explorations in Communication, II (introduction).

McLuhan Understanding Media: The Extension of Man, 1–5.

Carpenter “The New Languages,” in op. cit., 164.

op. cit.

op. cit.

Mass Communications and Education (Washington: The Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association of the United States and the American Association of School Administrators, 1958), 60–72.

Mass Communications and Education

McLuhan Marshall “Classrooms Without Walls,” in Carpenter , and McLuhan (ed.), Explorations in Communications, 1.

A speech by Marshall McLuhan at Boston University, 11/64.

Mass Comunications and Education, loc. cit.

McLuhan “Classrooms Without Walls,” in op. cit., 1–3.

Mass Communications and Education, op. cit, 72.

For a more Complete history of film education in the United States, see Polito Ronald , “A History of Film Study in American Public Schools,” in Screen Education, July/August, 1965.

McLuhan Marshall “The Effects of the Printed Book on Language in the 16th Century,” in Carpenter , and McLuhan (ed.), Explorations in Communications, 129.

McLuhan “Classrooms Without Walls,” in op, cit., 2.

Writing is not merely a rerecording of the spoken word, it is a new “Language” with a different form and structure. (Edmund Carpenter, “The New Languages,” in op. cit., 162.

McLuhan Understanding Media: The Extension of Man, 71–72.

Culkin John The World of Marshall McLuhan: An Essay in Synthesis (N.Y.: Fordham University, 1964), 5.

The following, except where noted, is essentially the philosophy and practice of Screen Education as developed in Great Britain, and set forth in Anthony Hodgkinson, Screen Education (N.Y.: UNESCO, 1963).

Adler Mortimer J. Art and Prudence (N.Y.: Longmans, Green, 1937).

Read Herbert Education Through Art (London: Faber and Faber, 1943), 205.

Central Advisory Council for Education, Half Our Future (England: British Government, 1964).