Diane Levin
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Diane Levin is an American author, educator, and advocate known for her work in media literacy and media affects on children.
Levin is a professor of education at Wheelock College in Boston. She teaches courses on children's play, violence prevention and media literacy. Together with her colleagues: Gail Dines and Petra Hesse, Levin teaches an annual summer seminar at Wheelock college. The institute: "Media education in a violent society" was developed to address the effects of media violence on children.
Levin has been working with this issue since 1985 and is an internationally known expert on how violence in media culture and the wider society affects children, families, and schools, and how to counteract the problems that violence creates for society.
She is a founder of TRUCE— Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children's Entertainment. "Truce" every year submits a "Toy Action Guide". She is also a founder of CCFC, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood.
Diane Levin is, together with Nancy Carlsson-Paige, a popular speaker on this matter and travels around the world. She is also a frequent guest on TV and radio shows.
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- The War Play Dilemma: What Every Parent and Teacher Needs to Know
- Teaching Young Children in Violent Times: Building a Peaceable Classroom
- Remote Control Childhood? Combating the Hazards of Media Culture
- Before Push Comes to Shove: Building Conflict Resolution Skills with Children
- Who's Calling the Shots? How to Respond Effectively to Children's Fascination with War Play and War Toys.
