Mary Erickson

Kathleen M. Ryan

Noah J. Springer

Deborah A. Macey

Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members, communities, and nations. This book is written by a diverse group of scholars who used a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches to interrogate the ways through which television molds our vision of ourselves as individuals, ourselves as in relationships with others, and ourselves as a part of the world. This book will appeal to scholars of communication studies, cultural studies, media studies, and popular culture studies.

Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television

Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community

Stephen Addiss

Guided by Stephen Addiss's grounding in art history scholarship and Mary Erickson's expertise in art education theory and practice, this volume approaches the issue of teaching art history from theoretical and philosophical as well as practical and political standpoints. In the first section, Addiss raises issues about the discipline of art history. In the second, Erickson examines proposals about how art history can be incorporated into the general education of children and offers some curriculum guides and lesson plans for art educators.

Art History and Education

Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes both how complex, interpersonal relationships were both depicted in and were influenced by television programs in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Written in a back-to-basics style, My Wee Book of Rhymes combines action and education in a format sure to delight parents and children alike. Watch the cat run after a rat. Look at me count to three. Can the bird escape the bee in the tree? Join author Mary Erickson on a fun rhyming adventure.

Mary Erickson

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