Mapping Educational Role Dimensions Among Chilean Journalism and Mass Communication Educators

Abstract

The challenges and uncertainties that journalism education has historically faced have led to reconsiderations of its approaches, definitions, and functions in society over time. Yet, little attention has been paid to assess how Journalism and Mass Communications (JMC) educators see their roles, as well as individual and contextual factors that influence their orientations. Based on a survey of educators and data collected from JMC schools in Chile, JMC educators' roles can be grouped into four distinctive categories: the scholarly-oriented, the didactic-oriented, the practiceoriented, and the journalistic-oriented roles. Overall, the orientation that received the greatest support was the practice-oriented, followed by the didactic and the scholarly-oriented. The findings also reveal that education level, job commitment, gender, current professional journalism experience, organization type, school accreditation and the existence of graduate programs are factors that best predict educators' orientations.

The journalist’s ‘toolbox’ of competencies in the Digital-Global Age: Reflections on the global state of research

“…This can create an environment hostile to fresh views and change so necessary in an age of disruption. Professionals and even educators (Mellado & Subervi, 2013) can use these disciplinary boundaries, to also 'exclude potential newcomers from being seen as 'proper' journalists' (Harrington, 2012, Deuze, 2005. This 'journalism orthodoxy,' developed in pre-existing news templates and news production methods, is problematic because the disruptions in news media economy and practice, as well as the innovative approaches, are coming from 'outsiders', who, more often than not, are not recognized as 'proper' journalists based on industry or even academic standards (Harrington, 2012).…”

Examining the Growth of Sports Communication Programs in Higher Education Through a Questionnaire of Program Coordinators

“…However, journalism has become an increasingly unattractive vocation, with employment dropping nearly 25% in the 10 years from 2008 to 2017 (Grieco, 2018). At the same time, many JMC colleges and schools are continuously tasked with updating courses and curricula to better prepare students for the technological, societal, and economical changes of the consistently evolving digital era that have greatly altered the communication and media industries in the 21st century (Mellado & Subervi, 2013; Pavlik, 2013).…”

La innovación educativa, subestimada: Análisis de la importancia que le otorgan los estudiantes de Periodismo

“…Australia, Brasil, Chile, España, México, Suiza y Estados Unidos), puesto que este estudio forma parte de una investigación comparada titulada Journalism Sudents Proyect (Mellado et al, 2012). En el caso español, la población la constituyeron los estudiantes de la titulación de Periodismo en el curso 2011-12.…”