Joan Ganz Cooney

Joan Ganz Cooney is an American television producer who co-founded Sesame Workshop and helped create Sesame Street, using research and entertainment to advance educational television for children.

Lloyd Morrisett: An American psychologist and television executive who co-founded the Children’s Television Workshop. His question about television’s potential for preschool learning helped prompt Cooney’s landmark research project.
Carnegie Corporation of New York: A philanthropic foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. Its grant funded Cooney’s study of how television could serve preschool children.
Sesame Street: An American educational television series for children that premiered in 1969. Cooney helped shape this series as the central test of her educational television model.
Sesame Workshop: An American nonprofit educational organization that produces Sesame Street and other children’s media. Cooney helped establish the organization, which grew from the Children’s Television Workshop.
Jim Henson: An American puppeteer, filmmaker, and creator of the Muppets. His Muppets gave Sesame Street a distinctive comic cast for Cooney’s educational format.
The Potential Uses of Television in Preschool Education: A 1966 report by Joan Ganz Cooney examining television’s potential for preschool education. This report translated Cooney’s inquiry into a proposal for a research-based children’s program.
Educational television: Television programming designed to support learning or instruction. Cooney’s work helped establish children’s educational television as a deliberate production practice.
International Sesame Street: Locally adapted versions of Sesame Street produced for audiences in countries worldwide. The model Cooney helped create was adapted to address children’s needs in distinct cultural settings.
Michael Davis: An American journalist and author who wrote about the creation of Sesame Street. His account documents the people and decisions behind the program Cooney helped build.
Children’s Television Workshop: An American nonprofit organization founded in 1968 to produce educational television for children. Cooney co-founded this organization to create Sesame Street and develop its educational approach.

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