Book Review: Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism? Children’s Television and Globalized Multicultural Education by Naomi A. Moland
In her review of Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism? Children’s Television and Globalized Multicultural Education by Naomi A. Moland, Kate Lapham highlights fierce debates among international development scholars and practitioners regarding whether and how external actors can foster multicultural education and peacebuilding through educational media. Lapham writes that Moland uses Sesame Workshop’s production of Sesame Square in Nigeria as a case for understanding the complex interplay of priorities and values among Western development officials (Sesame producers), local education experts, and recipients of programming (Sesame Square viewers) in diverse parts of the country.