Mister Rogers' environmentalism: children's spirituality in a trash apocalypse
In 1990, when Earth Day was set to go international, the iconic Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - which ran for 900 episodes from 1968 to 2001 and won a Peabody Award and 4 Emmy Awards and received 25 Emmy Award nominations - ran a series of episodes on 'Caring for the Environment.' The s...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2019]
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International journal of children's spirituality
Year: 2019, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 155-165 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America NBQ Eschatology NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
B Environmentalism B Television B Apocalypse B Children |
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| Summary: | In 1990, when Earth Day was set to go international, the iconic Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - which ran for 900 episodes from 1968 to 2001 and won a Peabody Award and 4 Emmy Awards and received 25 Emmy Award nominations - ran a series of episodes on 'Caring for the Environment.' The show grappled with how children might face the looming environmental crisis. In these episodes, Rogers offers a spirituality for children that enables them to grasp the severity of the issue but does so by situating the concern in a hopeful worldview and indicating ways that children can take action. Instead of instilling fear and apathy as popular environmental apocalypticism does, Rogers prepares children for the new social order that must emerge to address the environmental crisis. It is an approach that prevents children from being overwhelmed by anxiety in the face of the environmental crisis but instead develops in them a sense of responsibility for the environment. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8455 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of children's spirituality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1364436X.2019.1624508 |