EDUC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Media Literacy, Materialism, Childhood Obesity
28 Mar 2016
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Week 8 (lecture 20) february 29th 2016. Refusal to learn is socially and culturally caused. Not caused my psychological problems" or fixed by different instructional methods. Consumerism is a social and economic order that encourages the purchase of goods and services in ever-greater amounts. Depends on brands for a sense of self-worth. One of the most important parts of our culture today. One of the most important issues to education today. Advertising and marketing are becoming a bigger part of society than education. Perhaps advertising and marketing is the new educator today! A significant impediment to student learning and engagement. Mcdonalds tours from school to school, advertising an active, healthy lifestyle (while still promoting their business) The primary reasons given by incoming students for wanting to go to college in the 1960s and early 1980s was, to become an educated person", or to develop a meaningful philosophy of life".
