Edutainment

Edutainment (also educational entertainment or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse. Edutainment typically seeks to instruct or socialize its audience by embedding lessons in some familiar form of entertainment: television programs, computer and video games, films, music, websites, multimedia software, et al.

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Entertainment - Educate - Socialize - Television program - Computer and video games - Film - Music - Website - Multimedia - Software

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Most often, edutainment seeks either to tutor in one or more specific subjects, or to change behaviour by engendering specific sociocultural attitudes.

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Various groups in the United States and the United Kingdom have used edutainment to address such health and social issues as substance abuse, immunization, teenage pregnancy, HIV / AIDS, and cancer.

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United States - United Kingdom - Substance abuse - Immunization - Teenage pregnancy - HIV - AIDS - Cancer

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