The educational impact of Rechov Sumsum/Shara’a Simsim: A Sesame Street television series to promote respect and understanding among children living in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza

By C. Cole, C. Arafat, Chava E. Tidhar, Wafa Zidan Tafesh, Nick C Fox, Melanie Killen, Alicia Ardila-Rey, L. Leavitt, G. Lesser, B. A. Richman and 1 more. 2003

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Subfields: Education, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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Improving intergroup relations with extended and vicarious forms of indirect contact (2014, background): “, Bilali & Vollhardt, 2013), and Israel (Cole et al., 2003).”
The power of being heard: The benefits of ‘perspective-giving’ in the context of intergroup conflict (2012, background): “…have investigated how members of non-dominant groups 6 respond to interventions aimed at inter-group reconciliation or conflict resolution; when 7 examined, attitudes of non-dominant group members have proven resistant to positive 8 change (Cole et al., 2003; Tropp and Pettigrew, 2005).”
Interventions to reduce prejudice and enhance inclusion and respect for ethnic differences in early childhood: A systematic review (2012, unknown): “So we might expect to ﬁnd more effects of exposure to ingroup information among very young children of all ethnicities and of minority children in particular (e.g., Cole et al., 2003).”
Intervening in the Media's Influence on Stereotypes of Race and Ethnicity: The Role of Media Literacy Education (2015, background): “Similarly, exposure to positive intergroup messages in Sesame Street also reduced intergroup stereotypes among Israeli and Palestinian children (Cole et al., 2003).”
Effects of Sesame Street: A meta-analysis of children's learning in 15 countries. (2013, methodology): “In some studies (e.g., Cole et al., 2003) there were no direct measures of children's exposure — in such cases we relied on information about the number of weeks in which Sesame Street was broadcast between pretest and posttest.”