Television as a learning environment: A theory of synergy

Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 15-22

  Neuman, Susan B ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410611161-11     Document Type: Chapter

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