Education on TV

In the last two years, TV stations like RTL, Super RTL or RTL II produced TV shows like "Teenager außer Kontrolle", "Die Supernanny" or "Die Supermamas". The seminar should deal with the anglophone models of these TV shows and analyse their cultural concepts.

• What pedagogical ideas do they advertise?
• Which methods are used; how is theory (trans-)formed into practice? (stone circles (Teenager außer Kontrolle), time schedules for the parents what to do at which time (Die Supernanny) etc.)
• Comparison between "Boot Camps" (military) and "Brat Camps" (as in Teenager außer Kontrolle)
• Analysis of single episodes
• How is the show presented to the audience (in front of the TV set); its concepts, the content and its participants (the youth, the children, the parents)?
• Production and shooting of the TV shows or "to look behind the scenes" (e.g. application procedure, financial aspects etc.)

English versions:

• Supernanny.co.uk
• Wikipedia: Supernanny UK
• Wikipedia: Little Angels UK
• Wikipedia: Nanny 911 US
• Wikipedia: Brat Camp
• channel 4: Brat Camp

German versions:

• Wikipedia: Die Super Nanny
• Die Super Nanny RTL Episoden
• Constantin Entertainment: Die Supermamas
• Wikipedia: Teenager ausser Kontrolle
• RTL: Teenager ausser Kontrolle

Links:

• The Turn About Ranch
• Catherine Freer Wilderness Therapy Program
• Deutsches Trainingscamp Lothar Kannenberg
• Bratcamps.com
• Kinderschutzbund Stellungnahme Super Nanny 07.10.2004
• Spiegel.de über Teenager ausser Kontrolle
• dt. Wikipedia: Bootcamp