television that is intended to teach and instruct the viewer, esp television intended to educate children
Canadian broadcasters have no mandate to deliver educational shows, so there is verylittle educational television for children.
educational television in American English
noun
television of informational or instructional content
Word origin
[1950–55]This word is first recorded in the period 1950–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Common Market, action painting, bleep, point spread, point-of-sale
Examples of 'educational television' in a sentence
educational television
The public broadcasters of many countries routinely provide locally-relevant and useful educational television programs.
Pradeep Kumar MISRA 2010, 'INTERNET FOR EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION: An opportunity or threat', The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Educationhttp://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde40/pdf/article_9.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Toward that goal, this study examines neural processes that are evoked naturalistically, during educational television viewing.
Jessica F Cantlon, Rosa Li 2013, 'Neural activity during natural viewing of Sesame Street statistically predicts testscores in early childhood.', PLoS Biologyhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3536813?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
He designates in his paper how to produce good, quality, educative and potentially effective educational television programs.
Ugur Demiray 2005, 'From the Editor Vol: 6 number 2', The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Educationhttp://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde18/editor/editorial.htm. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)