Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street (1974) is a non-fiction book written by Gerald S. Lesser, in which he describes the production of "Sesame Street", and the formation and pedagogical philosophy of the Children's Television Workshop. Lesser was a professor at Harvard University, studying how social class and ethnicity interacted with school achievement and was one of the first academics in the US who researched how watching television affected children and their development. He was initially skeptical about the potential of using television as a teaching tool, but he was eventually named
S. A. Wakefield S. A. Wakefield Sydney Wakefield was born in Australia to English immigrant parents on 13 May 1927. In 1945 he enlisted and was commissioned into the 2nd Punjab Regiment. After the end of World War 2 he joined his father who had an orchard Gosford, New South Wales. After studying Social Studies at Sydney University (1949-50), he married (1953), and started a farm at Kariong, New South Wales. He wrote short stories for children about "Bottersnikes and Gumbles", which contain a mixture of absurdity, humour, puns, as well as carrying an environmental message. Wakefield wrote four books about the Bottersnikes